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It was created in occasion of a free game by the genius Adolph Anderssen (1818 - 1879), renown by his contemporaries as the World Champion during the period 1851 - 1866 (with the little parenthesis of Morphy, who defeated him in 1858).
Anderssen was, before the coming of Steinitz and the strong laws of positional game, the last and may be the greatest master of the romantic school.
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We owe him some jewels of everlasting beauty as the Immortal in 1852 against Dufense, the Evergreen Game.
The Immortal of Anderssen/Kiseritsky was already played in Marostica with living persons in the first historical edition on 2nd September 1923.
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