Evergreen

An evergreen is also what journalists call a story that isn't time-sensitive.

The name given to a famous game of chess, played between Adolf Anderssen and J. Dufresne in 1852, at Berlin. Known as "Evergreen" because its fame is expected to last forever, while the game remains eternally fresh.

A bold combinational game in the high romantic style, it illustrates how Anderssen could always see a few steps ahead of his opponent, and could take advantage of a lead in development which resulted through natural intuitive play, though the principles of position play were unknown. He would happily sacrifice a knight, then rook, then queen, for an attack on the king which he foresaw before his opponent could have been aware of the danger, and he calculated more accurately.

Though, as Richard Reti points out in Masters of the Chessboard, with reference to Emanuel Lasker's analysis, Anderson failed to grasp the full implication of the middle game position, he played with a strong fighting spirit and triumphed through his greater combinational skill.

The moves, in algebraic notation are as follows:

Evans Gambit

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Bc5
4. b4 Bxb4
5. c3 Ba5
6. d4 exd4
7. 0-0 d3
8. Qb3 Qf6
9. e5 Qg6
10. Re1 Nge7
11. Ba3 b5
12. Qxb5 Rb8
13. Qa4 Bb6
14. Nbd2 Bb7
15. Ne4 Qf5
16. Bxd3 Qh5
17. Nf6+ gxf6
18. exf6 Rg8
19. Rad1 Qxf3
20. Rxe7+ Nxe7
21. Qxd7+ Kxd7
22. Bf5+ Ke8
23. Bd7+ Kf8
24. Bxe7++

Ev"er*green (?) a. Bot.

Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.

 

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Ev"er*green, n.

1. Bot.

An evergreen plant.

2. pl.

Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.

"The funeral evengreens entwine."

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