Editing Adolf Anderssen (section)

===First steps===
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Anderssen first came to the attention of the chess world when he published ''Aufgabe für Schachspieler'' ("Task for chess players"), a collection of 60 [[chess problem]]s, in 1842.<ref name="WallProfileAnderssen" /><ref name="Fine1952WorldsGreatChessGames"/> He continued to publish problems for many years, both in magazines and as a second collection in 1852.<ref name="WeeninkChessProblem">{{cite book | author=Weenink, H.G.M. |editor1=Hume, G. |editor2=White, A.C. | title=The Chess Problem | year=1926 }}</ref><ref name="Howard1970PioneerComposers">{{cite book | title=Classic Chess Problems by Pioneer Composers | author=Howard, K.S. | publisher=Courier Dover | year=1970 | isbn=0-486-22522-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PzNBButOy3oC&q=%22Classic+Chess+Problems+by+Pioneer+Composers%22+howard   | access-date=17 June 2008 }}</ref> These brought him to the attention of the "[[Berlin Pleiades]]" group, which included some of the strongest players of the time, and he played matches against some of them.<ref name="Spinrad2006Bledow" /> Anderssen's development as a player was relatively slow, largely because he could spare neither the time nor the money to play many matches against strong players. Nevertheless, by 1846 he was able to put up a good fight against another Pleiades member, [[Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa]], who may have been the world's strongest player at the time.<ref name="Diggle2006vonDerLasa">{{cite web | url=http://www.chesscafe.com/text/baron.pdf | author=Diggle, G.H. | title=The Baron | publisher=chesscafe.com  | access-date=17 June 2008 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080626153454/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/baron.pdf| archive-date= 26 June 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> In 1846, he became the editor of the magazine ''Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft'' (later called ''[[Deutsche Schachzeitung]]'') when its founder [[Ludwig Bledow]], one of the Berlin Pleiades, died. Anderssen held this post until 1865.<ref name="sympaticoChessPeriodicals">{{cite web|url=http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/periodicals.htm |title=Chess Periodicals |access-date=17 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221207/http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/periodicals.htm |archive-date=26 September 2007 }}</ref>