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Amos Burn: A Chess Biography / McFarland & Company, 2004 / 972 pages / 9780786417179 / Richard Forster / 2004 "Must be considered the definitive biography of the Englishman Amos Burn. It's an incredible achievement. Four Stars." - -Chess Horizons. "Richard Forster and McFarland have done the chess world proud with this volume...Forster has happily found a publisher willing and able to give the subject the treatment it deserves." - -Chess Mail. Read more. About the Author. Richard Forster holds a doctorate in computational linguistics and the international master title in chess. He works as a technical writer in information technology and is also the chess columnist of the Neue AMOS BURN. A Chess Biography. Richard Forster. Foreword by Victor Korchnoi. McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson NC, 2004. 984 pages (8.5 x 11 inches) and 2.5 kg of pure chess history, with almost 800 annotated games, 209 photographs and illustrations and 6 indexes.Â Deep coverage of all aspects of 19th century chess life, at both international and club levels, with a detailed presentation of chess life in Liverpool and London. Comprehensive source indications and bibliography. Illustrations of Burn and most of his opponents. and much more. Comments and Corrections. Viewable chess game Joseph Henry Blackburne vs Amos Burn, 1868, with discussion forum and chess analysis features.Â Coles indicates that Burn took up chess in about 1866, and he was introduced to the Liverpool chess club in 1867. He was put into the club's Class II - the Pawn & Move class, and in his first season he won the club's handicap tournament. With practice at the club against experts such as the Rev. John Owen, young Burn soon proved himself to be a match for anyone at the club. It was a bold venture for Burn, at the age of 21, to play in the 1870 BCA Challenge Cup. Nevertheless, he tied for first place, (+5-1), with Wisker, ahead of Blackburne and Owen, but he lost the play-off, (=1- Amos Burn (1848â“1925) was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer. Burn was born on New Year's Eve, 1848, in Hull.Richard Forster, Amos Burn: A Chess Biography, McFarland & Company, 2004, p. 17. ISBN 0-7864-1717-X . As a teenager, he moved to Liverpool, becoming apprenticed to a firm of shipowners and merchants. He learned chess only at the relatively late age of 16. He later took chess lessons from future World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz in London, and, like his teacher, became known for his superior defensive Amos Burn: A Chess Biography.

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