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- Adolf Anderssen - Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 - March 13, 1879) was a German chess master, one of the most renowned of the classic masters of 19th century chess. He had a long and distinguished chess career, and is generally considered to have been the leading chess player in the world from ...
- Jean Dufresne - Jean Dufresne (February 14, 1829 - 1893) was a French-German chess player and chess composer. He was a pupil of Adolf Anderssen, and lost the "Evergreen game" to him in 1852.
- Friedrich Amelung - Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung (born 23 March 1842, at Võisiku (Woiseck) manor near Fellin [now Viljandi], Estonia – died 21 March 1909, Riga, Latvia) was an Estonian chess player of Baltic German origin, endgame composer, and journalist. He played a few games with Adolf Anderssen, Neumann, Mayet, Schallopp, Ascharin, Emanuel Schiffers.
- Immortal losing game - A chess game between the Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein and the Polish International Master Bogdan Śliwa in 1957 in Gotha is referred to as the "Immortal Losing Game" - an allusion to the more famous Immortal Game between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. It is so called because Bronstein, in a completely lost position, set a series of elegant traps in an attempt to swindle a victory from a lost game, although Śliwa deftly avoided Bronstein's traps and won.
- Evergreen game - The evergreen game is a famous chess game played in 1852 between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne.