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|playername = Adolf Anderssen
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|birthname = Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen
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|datebirth = {{birth date|1818|7|6}}
|placebirth = [[Breslau]], now Wrocław, [[Poland]]
|datedeath = {{death date and age|1879|3|13|1818|7|6}}
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|worldchampion =  1851–1858, 1860–1866, 1868–1871 (unofficial)

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'''Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen''' ([[Breslau]], 6 July 1818 – Breslau, 13 March 1879) was a [[Germany|German]] [[chess master]], and a teacher of mathematics. He was recognised as the [[List of World Chess Champions#World Champions pre-FIDE|best player in the world]] for much of the time between 1851 and 1868. 

Anderssen won three great international tournaments: the first in [[London]] 1851 (unofficial world championship where all the top players except for Chigorin participated), then London 1862 and [[Baden-Baden]] 1870. Anderssen lost matches in 1858 to [[Paul Morphy]] and, narrowly, to [[Wilhelm Steinitz|Steinitz]] in 1866. He was also a chess problem composer.<ref name=Encyc>Hooper, David and Whyld, Kenneth 1992. ''The Oxford companion to chess'' 2nd ed, Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-280049-3}}.</ref><sup>p16</sup>

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[[Category:1818 births]]
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[[Category:German chess players]]
[[Category:German mathematicians]]
[[Category:People from former German territories]]
[[Category:People from Wrocław]]