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Henry Bird vs Amos Burn
Casual game (1886), London ENG, Nov-17
Italian Game: Bird's Attack (C53)  ·  1-0

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ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 11 (minimum 6s/ply)better is 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Ne7 5.O-O c6 6.Ba4 Ng6 7.c3 Be7 ⩲ +0.51 (37 ply)= 0.00 (44 ply) after 3...Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.O-O d6 6.c3 O-O 7.Re1 Bb6 8.Nbd2 5.d3 a5 6.O-O d6 7.h3 O-O 8.Re1 Re8 9.Nbd2 h6 10.Bb5 = +0.46 (20 ply)better is 5...Be7 6.d3 d5 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.O-O a6 9.a4 O-O 10.Re1 = -0.39 (30 ply) 6.d3 d6 7.O-O Ne7 8.Nbd2 O-O 9.h3 c6 10.Re1 Ng6 = +0.29 (32 ply) ⩱ -0.90 (31 ply)better is 7...a5 8.O-O d6 9.a4 axb4 10.cxb4 Bg4 11.Nbd2 Nh5 ⩱ -0.61 (31 ply) 8.a4 a5 9.b5 Ne7 10.Ng5 Qe8 11.O-O h6 12.Nf3 Bg4 = -0.11 (24 ply) ⩱ -1.03 (25 ply)better is 9.Bc1 a5 10.b5 a4 11.Qc2 Ne7 12.O-O Ng6 13.Re1 Bg4 ⩱ -1.10 (24 ply) ∓ -1.82 (23 ply) 10...a5 11.b5 Ne7 12.Nbd2 Nh5 13.d4 Ng6 14.a4 g4 15.Ng1 ∓ -1.64 (31 ply)better is 11.O-O Ng6 12.Nbd2 a5 13.bxa5 Rxa5 14.Qd1 h5 15.h4 Bg4 ⩱ -0.74 (25 ply) 11...Nh5 12.O-O Ng6 13.a4 a5 14.bxa5 Bxa5 15.h3 Kg7 16.d4 ⩱ -1.47 (27 ply) 12.O-O d5 13.exd5 cxd5 14.Bb5 Nh5 15.Rae1 Bc7 16.c4 Nxg3 ⩱ -0.68 (29 ply) 12...d5 13.exd5 cxd5 14.Be2 e4 15.Ne5 a5 16.bxa5 Bxa5 ∓ -1.87 (31 ply)= -0.35 (30 ply) 13...Ng6 14.O-O h5 15.f4 gxf4 16.Bxf4 Ng4 17.Rae1 c5 = -0.50 (32 ply)+- +4.23 (31 ply) 16...Kg8 17.Be2 f5 18.f4 Qe8 19.Qc2 Qg6 20.O-O a5 21.bxa5 +- +4.04 (32 ply)+- +8.12 (28 ply)1-0

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Jul-06-05  Knight13: 15. Nf6+!! wow! Brilliant move! The start of the Mate-a-thon... Beautiful.
May-06-08  whiteshark: London 1886, 13 participants.

1-2. Blackburne and Burn with 8.5 points,
(Blackburne won the playoff.)

Last: <Bird> with 2.5 points and a single victory....

Feb-17-12  Antiochus: A very old case of ladder of pawns
sheltering the king(common in kings-indian defences). A few more: Spassky vs Petrosian, 1967

W Rocha vs R Watanabe, 1991

R Janssen vs I Sokolov, 2002

No self-locking of a pawn, a severe restriction is required (type Anastasia's mate) Spassky vs Korchnoi, 1968 preparing check-mates.
When the variants are numerous or much calculated the right term should be king-hunt. Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958

Jan-29-16  zanzibar: Might this game actually have been from <Nottingham (1886)> and not <London (1886)>?

(The BCA ran one tournament, Staunton's Counties Chess Assoc the other)

I have a fairly reliable source, <"Brooklyn Chess Chronicle (Oct 1886-Sept 1887) p168 Game N426"> which has <Bird--Burns> as a nice 67-move game, specifically from London.

<Whiteshark>'s results are correct for <London (1886)>, but I'm quite inclined to think this game doesn't belong to that tournament.

Jan-29-16
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  Pawn and Two: <Zanzibar> I found my Nottingham 1886 tournament book. This book also includes another London 1886 tournament.

The tournament book is: "London Feb/Mar 1886 and Nottingham 1886", by A.J. Gillam.

The above Bird vs Burn game is not from either of these tournaments, nor as previously indicated, is it from the London July 1886 tournament.

At the Nottingham 1886 tournament, Bird vs Burn was a Ruy Lopez, which resulted in a 65 move draw. Unfortunately, the complete game score for this game was not available. The tournament book did provide moves 1-3, Black's 4th move, several comments regarding the middlegame play, and then a diagram with all of the moves from 47.Rxf4 until 63....Kxf3.

Bird played in the London Feb/Mar 1886 tournament, but Burn did not.

Jan-30-16  TheFocus: This was an offhand game played in London at Simpson's Divan on November 17, 1886.

This is game #250 in <Amos Burn A Chess Biography> by Richard Forster.

Original source is <Hereford Times>, December 11, 1886..

Jan-30-16  zanzibar: <TheFocus> solves the mystery game!

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