Jean Dufresne
Chess Player
1829 – 1893
Who was Jean Dufresne?
Jean Dufresne was a German chess player and chess composer. He was a student of Adolf Anderssen, and lost the "Evergreen game" to him in 1852. Dufresne was an unsuccessful novelist under the anagrammatic pseudonym E. S. Freund, but wrote several chess books, one of which, Kleines Lehrbuch des Schachspiels ran to many editions and taught several generations of players. He also wrote a popular book on Paul Morphy.
Dufresne took first in the Berliner Schachgesellschaft in 1853 and won an 1854 match against Carl Mayet, a member of the Berlin Pleiades.
He was born and died in Berlin. The grave of Jean Dufresne is located in the Jewish Cemetery Berlin-Weißensee.
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