Find the Move — November 2, 2026

The Evergreen Game (1852)

White to move. Find the best move.

From Adolf Anderssen – Jean Dufresne, Berlin 1852.

Berlin, 1852. A year after his London triumph, Adolf Anderssen sat down for a friendly game with Jean Dufresne, a Berlin chess writer whose handbooks stayed popular for decades. Anderssen chose the Evans Gambit, an opening built on giving up pawns for fast development. Years later Wilhelm Steinitz called this game an evergreen in Anderssen's laurel crown, and the name stuck. Black's pieces look active, and his queen is aiming straight at White's king — but whose attack comes first?