Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (born 1806)

Lionel Kieseritzky

Baltic German chess master (1805–1853)

Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky was a Baltic German chess master and theoretician, known for his contributions to chess theory, as well for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, known as the "Immortal Game". Kieseritzky's name became associated with several…