Anastasia's Mate

This mate takes its name from a book rather than from a player or a real person. Wikipedia states that the pattern gets its name from the novel Anastasia und das Schachspiel by Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse, and adds the important qualification that the novelist took the chess position from an essay by Giambattista Lolli, so the position predates the book that named it. Wikipedia's biography of Heinse gives his dates as 16 February 1746 to 22 June 1803 and lists Anastasia und das Schachspiel among his works, published in 1803. Edward Winter's article on the term is a warning against confidence about what it means: he observes that most of the encyclopaedias do not even have an entry for it, while those that do are contradictory. Winter reports that Brace defines it as the mate of a castled king following a queen-for-pawn sacrifice, citing Heinse's 1803 novel, whereas the Dictionnaire des echecs of Le Lionnais and Maget gives a different definition, and Renaud and Kahn devote chapter 5 of The Art of the Checkmate to it. Winter gives the simple case as 1 Ne7+ Kh8 2 Qxh7+ Kxh7 3 Rh3 mate.

First documented: 1803 — Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse, Anastasia und das Schachspiel, Briefe aus Italien (1803), per Wikipedia and Edward Winter; the position itself is credited by Wikipedia to an earlier essay by Giambattista Lolli