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Sub:
Adolf Anderssen
Date:
9/06/2005
10:11:43 PM Mountain Daylight
Time
From:
Ajedrez_2345
To:
service@Chess-poster.com
Sirs of
Chess-Poster:
I have a big doubt: see, in your
website on the Great Players and World Champions pages you
included
Paul Charles Morphy but I have this question: how come
Adolf Anderssen was not included?
As far as I'm concerned, Adolf
Anderssen won the unofficial title in a
tournament organized by Howard Staunton in 1851 and held it
until 1857 when Paul Morphy defeated him in a match. A year
later Morphy retires yielding back the title to Anderssen
from 1858 to 1866.
In the World Champions section,
besides that you don't mention
Adolf Anderssen,
you state that Wilhelm Steinitz
defeated Johanes Zukertort but that
happened after the Anderssen's match and all I like to know is:
why Adolf Anderssen is not mentioned?
Last, I would like to say
that I enjoy your website, is one of the
best, and it is very complete indeed.
Thank you for your space.
Chess-poster.com
Dear viewer,
In our
introduction on the World Champions page we have the following:
The first officially recognized
world Chess championship was held in 1886, when Wilhelm Steinitz
beat Johannes Zukertort in a match held in the USA. The
outstanding players before this date are well known, but there
were no official champions
As you can see,
the above text should answer your question. Of course, before
Wilhelm Steinitz
there were many good players such as Paul Morphy, Adolf
Anderssen, Howard Staunton, Philidor, etc., but no world
championship was ever held.
Thank you for visiting us,
Chess-poster.com
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