Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (Yuli 6, 1818 <unk> Maris 13, 1879) ya kasance masanin wasan chess na Jamus. Ya lashe manyan wasannin kasa da kasa na 1851 da 1862
, amma ya rasa wasanni zuwa Paul Morphy a 1858, da kuma Wilhelm Steinitz a 1866. Dangane da haka, ana ɗaukarsa a matsayin babban ɗan wasan chess na duniya daga 1851 zuwa 1858, kuma babban ɗan wasa mai aiki daga 1862 zuwa 1866, kodayake taken Gwarzon Chess na Duniya bai wanzu ba tukuna.