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Anderssen, Adolf (offhand)

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1849  15  2511 (61) 3 1850  9  2536 (44) 58 1851  17  2487 (35) 110 1852  16  2472 (48) 0 1853  20  2457 (49) 12 1854  19  2445 (54) 0 1855  26  2433 (52) 22 1856  22  2443 (52) 0 1857  24  2454 (43) 39 1858  13  2520 (46) 6 1859  8  2596 (43) 49 1860  11  2575 (43) 10 1861  11  2555 (41) 29 1862  13  2545 (37) 31 1863  13  2542 (41) 7 1864  12  2562 (33) 183 1865  11  2558 (35) 137 1866  11  2584 (38) 67 1867  12  2554 (51) 0 1868  16  2523 (55) 8 1869  18  2505 (61) 0 1870  21  2487 (62) 3 1871  19  2483 (65) 7 1872  22  2484 (74) 0 1873  21  2484 (81) 7 Rating table notes

Biographical data Name: Anderssen, Karl Ernst Adolf (offhand)   Born: 6 July 1818 Died: 13 Mar. 1879   Notes: This is, of course, the Adolf Anderssen, but (following Spinrad) for rating purposes I have considered Anderssen the offhand player as a separate person from Anderssen the formal match and tournament player. Spinrad argued (in postings about his attempts at historical ratings in the Avler Chess Forum) that, more than other players apparently, Anderssen played differently in offhand and formal events, being more experimental in the former. It is often difficult to ascertain, however, whether an event was considered formal or not, and I have in many cases had to just make a judgement based on the information available to me.   References Books    Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 9

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Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Anderssen (offhand) - von Salpius 1849	(c)	2	-	1
Anderssen (offhand) - Mayet, C. 1850	(c)	16	-	7
Anderssen (offhand) - Dufresne, J. 1850	(c)	15	-	5
Anderssen (offhand) - Eliason, C. 1850	(c)	10	-	2
Anderssen (offhand) - Nathan, N.D. 1850	(c)	2	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Franz, R. 1850	(c)	1	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Laroche, J.A. 1851	(c)	1.5	-	0.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Lowenthal, J.J. 1851 (1)	(c)	2	-	1
Anderssen (offhand) - Perigal, G. 1851	(c)	3	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Michaels, P. 1851	(c)	1	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Bourdillon 1851	(c)	1	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Jenay, E. 1851	(c)	4.5	-	3.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Medley, G.W. 1851	(c)	4.5	-	1.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Lowenthal, J.J. 1851 (2)	(c)	1	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Slous, F.L. 1851	(c)	1	-	0
Kieseritzky, L.A.B.F. - Anderssen (offhand) 1851	(c)	10	-	6
von Schaper - Anderssen (offhand) 1851	(c)	1	-	0
Buckle, H.T. - Anderssen (offhand) 1851	(c)	8	-	7
Anderssen (offhand) - Bird, H.E. 1851	(c)	9	-	9
Anderssen (offhand) - Mongredien, A. (1) 1851	(c)	20	-	15
Anderssen (offhand) - Mayet, C. 1853	(s)	7	-	5
Anderssen (offhand) - Pollmacher, H. 1855	(c)	7.5	-	2.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Schurig, B.E.R. 1855	(c)	8	-	4
Harrwitz, D. - Anderssen (offhand) 1857	(c)	3	-	0
Kipping, J.S. - Anderssen (offhand) 1857	(c)	7.5	-	8.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Pindar, E.D. 1857 (1)	(c)	0	-	1	Anderssen (offhand) gave odds of pawn and two moves
Anderssen (offhand) - Pindar, E.D. 1857 (2)	(c)	4.5	-	3.5	Anderssen (offhand) gave odds of pawn and move
Anderssen (offhand) - Pindar, E.D. 1857 (3)	(c)	1	-	6	Anderssen (offhand) gave odds of the exchange
Anderssen (offhand) - Pindar, E.D. 1857 (4)	(c)	3	-	1
Morphy, P.C. - Anderssen (offhand) 1858	(c)	5	-	1
Anderssen (offhand) - Suhle, C.F.B. 1859 (1)	(c)	7	-	2
Anderssen (offhand) - Dufresne, J. 1859	(c)	4	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Suhle, C.F.B. 1859 (2)	(c)	12.5	-	9.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Suhle, C.F.B. 1859 (3)	(c)	11.5	-	2.5
Kolisch, I. - Anderssen (offhand) 1860	(c)	4	-	2
Anderssen (offhand) - Neumann, G.R.L. 1860 (1)	(c)	2	-	1
Anderssen (offhand) - Neumann, G.R.L. 1860 (2)	(s)	1	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - van 't Kruijs, M. 1861	(c)	6	-	2
Anderssen (offhand) - Kolisch, I. 1861	(c)	2	-	2
Anderssen (offhand) - Dufresne, G. 1861	(c)	4	-	1
Anderssen (offhand) - Dupre, C.E.A. 1861	(c)	2.5	-	0.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Raland, F. 1861	(c)	4	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Messemaker, C. 1861	(c)	3	-	1
Anderssen (offhand) - Lowenthal, J.J. 1861	(c)	2	-	1
Anderssen (offhand) - Campbell, Jos.G. 1861	(c)	0.5	-	1.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Dubois, S. 1862	(c)	5	-	3
Anderssen (offhand) - Blackburne, J.H. 1862	(c)	1	-	2
Anderssen (offhand) - Lowenthal, J.J. 1862	(c)	0.5	-	0.5
Anderssen (offhand) - de Riviere, J.A. 1862	(s)	1	-	1
Anderssen (offhand) - MacDonnell, G.A. 1862	(c)	2	-	2
Anderssen (offhand) - Steinitz, W. 1862	(s)	4	-	2
Paulsen, L. - Anderssen (offhand) 1862	(c)	4.5	-	0.5
Kolisch, I. - Anderssen (offhand) 1862	(c)	1	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Donaldson, Jo. 1862	(c)	0.5	-	0.5
Paulsen, L. - Anderssen (offhand) 1863	(c)	3	-	2
Paulsen, W. - Anderssen (offhand) 1863	(c)	2	-	0
Anderssen (offhand) - Neumann, G.R.L. 1864 (1)	(s)	41.5	-	36.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Neumann, G.R.L. 1864 (2)	(c)	28	-	28
Anderssen (offhand) - Schallopp, E. 1864	(c)	20	-	20
Anderssen (offhand) - Zukertort, J.H. 1864	(c)	5.5	-	3.5
Neumann, G.R.L. - Anderssen (offhand) 1865	(s)	52	-	48
Zukertort, J.H. - Anderssen (offhand) 1865 (1)	(c)	15	-	8
Zukertort, J.H. - Anderssen (offhand) 1865 (2)	(c)	10	-	4
Anderssen (offhand) - Minckwitz, J. 1866	(c)	8.5	-	3.5
Neumann, G.R.L. - Anderssen (offhand) 1866	(s)	25	-	25
Anderssen (offhand) - Bird, H.E. 1866	(c)	1	-	0
Zukertort, J.H. - Anderssen (offhand) 1866	(c)	2.5	-	1.5
Anderssen (offhand) - Schulten, J.W. 1868	(c)	4.5	-	3.5
Paulsen, L. - Anderssen (offhand) 1870	(c)	2.5	-	0.5
Zukertort, J.H. - Anderssen (offhand) 1871	(c)	5	-	2
Anderssen (offhand) - Riemann, F. 1873 (1)	(c)	1.5	-	0.5	Anderssen (offhand) gave odds of rook and move
Anderssen (offhand) - Riemann, F. 1873 (2)	(c)	0	-	2	Anderssen (offhand) gave odds of a rook
Anderssen (offhand) - Riemann, F. 1873 (3)	(c)	0	-	3	Anderssen (offhand) gave odds of a knight

Player information updated: 8 Dec. 2023