Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- chess game
- Location
- London
- Sport
- chess
- Image
- Immortal game animation.gif
- Participant
- Lionel Kieseritzky
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- Portable Game Notation
- Qf6 Nxf6
- point in time
- 1851-06-21
- Commons category
- Immortal game
- winner
- Adolf Anderssen
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Encyclopedic overview
Immortal Game animation. Anderssen shown playing as White.
The Immortal Game was a chess game played in 1851 between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky during the London 1851 chess tournament, an event in which both players participated. It was itself a casual game, however, not played as part of the tournament. Anderssen won the game by sacrificing all of his major pieces while developing a mating attack with his remaining minor pieces. Despite losing the game, Kieseritzky was impressed with Anderssen's performance. Kieseritzky published the game shortly afterwards in La Régence, a French chess journal which he helped to edit. Ernst Falkbeer published an analysis of the game in 1855, describing it for the first time with its sobriquet "immortal".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Immortal Game” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.