Adolf Anderssen, German chess player – Anderssen's Opening; Saint Andrew, Christian apostle – Order of Saint Andrew, Saint Andrew's Cross, St Andrews, Scotland, San Andreas Fault, and numerous other localities, churches and cathedrals. Anne of Denmark, Scottish queen – Queen Anne's Men

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: . 1. e4 c5. The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. Opening 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for White because of the high success rate of the Sicilian defence against 1.e4. 17% of all games between grandmasters, and 25% of the games in the …

In Anderssen's mate (named for Adolf Anderssen), the rook or queen is supported by a diagonally attacking piece such as a pawn or bishop as it checkmates the opposing king along the eighth rank.. Sometimes a distinction is drawn between Anderssen's mate, where the rook is supported by a pawn (which itself is supported by another piece, as in the diagram), and …

Wrocław ( [ˈvrɔtswaf] (info / uitleg); Duits: Breslau, Silezisch Duits: Brassel, Tsjechisch: Vratislav, Latijn: Vratislavia) is een stad in Centraal-Europa in het zuidwesten van Polen, gelegen aan de rivier de Oder.In Wrocław kruisten twee belangrijke handelsroutes: Via Regia en de Barnsteenroute.De stad behoorde tot de Hanze.Wrocław is de belangrijkste historische stad …

Adolf Anderssen: 1862–1866 Duitsland: Wilhelm Steinitz: 1866–1878 Oostenrijk: Johann Zukertort: 1878–1886 Polen: Officieel: Wilhelm Steinitz: 1886–1894 Oostenrijk: Emanuel Lasker: 1894–1921 Duitse Keizerrijk: José Raúl Capablanca: 1921–1927 Cuba: Aleksandr Aljechin: 1927–1935 Rusland: Max Euwe: 1935–1937 Nederland: Aleksandr ...