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Title: AMOS BURN
A CHESS BIOGRAPHY
By: Richard Forster
Format: Hardback

List price: £99.95


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ISBN 10: 078641717X
ISBN 13: 9780786417179
Publisher: MCFARLAND & CO INC
Pub. date: 30 November, 2003
Pages: 880
Description: This work analyzes all extant games and provides a biography of the famous 19th century master. A fighter player who never shied away from tactical battles, Amos Burn's style clashed with many of his contemporaries. Annotations quote both Burn and contemporaries.
Synopsis: This enormous and definitive work on the Englishman Amos Burn assembles an d analyzes all extant games and provides a thorough biography of the famous chess master of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It chronicles in exceptional detail the broader picture of chess development throughout that era. Burn was active for a long time, winning victories over such masters as Blackburne, Marshall, Steinitz (his mentor), Alekhine, and Zukertort. He was a fighting player who relished tactical battles against his more romantic rivals but was also one of the worlds best defensive players. He made a number of valuable discoveries in such openings as the Queen's Gambit Declined and the Ruy Lopez, and even today his name remains associated with a variation of the French Defense. Burns life is painstakingly traced from his birth on the last day of 1848 to his death of a stroke at age 76. The great international tournaments in which he took part are paid particular attention, with extensive quotation of notes by Burn himself and his contemporaries. Where necessary, old analysis is corrected and supplemented. Meticulous research has been undertaken in newspapers and periodicals from various countries where Burn played and traveled, including the United States, with the result that many forgotten games have been unearthed. Precise citations of primary sources are given in all cases. The book features approximately 800 games played by Burn, almost all of them annotated, about 850 chess diagrams, and about 200 photographs, indices of openings, annotators, games, players, and general subjects. An appendix describes missing evidence, uncertain games, and further research possibilities. Another appendix lists corrections to game scores published elsewhere and a third gives Burns complete tournament and match record.
Illustrations: 200 photographs and illustrations, diagrams, tables, notes, bibliography,
Publication: US
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Returns: Returnable
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