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First, the rooks, then the bishop and finally the queen — one by one, Adolf Anderssen, the German chess master, sacrificed the three pieces in his famous 1852 match with Lionel Kieseritzky, another fellow chess master from the Baltic. It seemed like Kieseritzky was a whisker away from victory. Yet, by the end, Anderssen stunned everyone with a surprising checkmate.