Kammala wannan jumla: Anderssen ya lashe gasar
Gasar wasan chess ta London 1862, gasar zakarun duniya ta farko (wanda kowane ɗan takara ke wasa da kowane ɗayan) tare da nasarar nasara goma sha biyu daga cikin wasanni goma sha uku. Ya rasa wasa daya ne kawai, ga Rev. John Owen kuma ya gama maki biyu a gaban Louis Paulsen, wanda ke da mafi kyawun rikodin wasa a farkon shekarun 1860. Morphy ya yi ritaya daga wasan chess a wannan lokacin, don haka Anderssen ya sake kasancewa a matsayin babban dan wasan duniya.