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Einstein is allegedly white. But it's completely unproven whether this game was played by either of them.

Games are listed as white's name vs black's name. So in this case Einstein is white. The score at the end is in the same order, so Einstein won.

Thanks, from looking at it it doesn't look like Einstein got checkmate (did he?), did oppenheimer surrender?

Black is down an entire queen (plus two pawns) of material and resigned.

No checkmate: Black resigned (it's normally called "resigning", not "surrendering"). When you're up as much material as White is, it's very straightforward to win.

No matter what Black does, White can force (at least) equal trades, simplifying down to an endgame where White has a queen and Black has nothing, at which point checkmating is easy.

Any 1000-rated player could win this position against Stockfish, IMO.

Einstein played with the white pieces and won according to the notation (no clue whether it’s true).