Find the Move — November 8, 2026

The Immortal Game (1851)

White to move. Find the best move.

From Adolf Anderssen – Lionel Kieseritzky, London 1851.

London, summer 1851: the city hosted the first international chess tournament, and Adolf Anderssen, a mathematics teacher from Breslau, won it. Between rounds he played a casual game against Lionel Kieseritzky, a professional from the Café de la Régence in Paris. What followed was so wild that Kieseritzky himself sent the moves to Paris for publication, and a few years later the game earned the name it still carries. Anderssen is a pawn down and has lost the right to castle, but his pieces are ready to swarm.