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By Bill Wall
The chess game known as the Evergreen game was a casual game between Adolf
Anderssen (1818-1879)of Breslau and the German player Jean Dufresne (E.S.
Freund) (1820-1893), assumed to have been played in Berlin, Germany in
1852. Dufresne lived in Berlin and Anderssen visited Berlin often. The game was
originally published in the September 1852 issue of the Deutsche Schachzeitung,
page 338, game 450. Anderssen, the editor of the magazine, had the first 18
moves in the September issue, ending it with a diagram. He finished the moves in
the October issue with a diagram after Black’s 20th move, showing a mate in 4
moves. The game was then published in the Chess Player’s Chronicle of 1853, p.
4-11, in the section called “Chess on the Continent.”
After Anderssen’s death in March, 1879, Wilhelm Steinitz annotated the game in
1879 in the March 29, 1879 issue of The Field. He wrote “An evergreen in the
laurel crown of the departed Chess hero,” thus giving its name – Evergreen. An
evergreen tree is one that has foliage that remains green throughout the
year. Steinitz probably called it evergreen because the game would always be
new, fresh, and vibrant to new generations of players. The game itself leads to all
kinds of branching variations.
In May, 1898, pages 129-134 and June, 1898, pages 161-163 of Deutsche
Schachzeitung, Paul Lipke analyzed the Evergreen game in detail and found
several defensive possibilities for Black.
The game was analyzed in detail in Schach-Echo 24/1957 and throughout 1958 by
Paul Schlensker and readers. ChessBase published some of the analysis.
Kasparov provided analysis in his book My Great Predecessors, Part 1, and a
follow-up analysis published as an article for ChessBase.
For the Immortal Game between Anderssen and Kieseritsky, see my article “The
Immortal Game”
Pgn format:
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O
d3 8.Qb3 Qf6 9.e5 Qg6 10.Re1 Nge7 11.Ba3 b5 12.Qxb5 Rb8 13.Qa4
Bb6 14.Nbd2 Bb7 15.Ne4 Qf5 16.Bxd3 Qh5 17.Nf6+ gxf6 18.exf6
Rg8 19.Rad1 Qxf3 20.Rxe7+ Nxe7 21.Qxd7+ Kxd7 22.Bf5+ Ke8
23.Bd7+ Kf8 24.Bxe7# 1-0
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