Here is proof:

He started off his match with Mackenzie (career record of 64.8%) down 4 losses (5 wins takes the match) and ended with 4 wins 4 losses and 2 draws.

People say 'When you get knocked down... get back up!'

What I am interested in is this: what do your eyes look like when you get back up?

Does your opponent see your self-pity reflecting in your eyes?

Here is proof:>

Most of the Burn / Mackenzie match can be found here in Chessgames.com, but not all of the games show up.

Not only did Burn and Mackenzie play evenly in the match, but they had a dead even career head-to-head record: 5 wins each and 3 draws.

Burn had a winning record against Pillsbury: 2 wins 2 draws and 1 loss.

I'm supposed to commit 900 pages to memory!?

<Most of the Burn / Mackenzie match can be found here in Chessgames.com, but not all of the games show up.>

Burn played 892 games over his career and averaged 50% against World Class Masters. This does not mean he had an even scores against all of them. He (like all players) did well against some and less-so against others. Forster has Burn's career score against Blackburne at 47%.

Hey, wait a minute...what abooot?

<In his early teens he was apprenticed to a firm of Liverpool cotton brokers. Most of the year l870 was spent in London. At least once, and probably three times in his life, he made prolonged business visits to America; the occasion as to which there is most certainty was about 1893-5, when he was a year or two at Chicago; Liverpool information puts another visit about 1902-3 (which would account for his non-participation in the Monte Carlo tournaments); and hints dropped by himself point to such a visit in 1882-3 ; this would account for his not competing in either event at the London congress of 1833, and for the non-inclusion of his portrait in the large group picture painted by A. Rosenbaum about 1882, and now hanging in the City of London Chess Clubroom. Upon returning to England he always settled down again in business at Liverpool, where he was occupied, for some time at any rate, in sea insurance. From which it will be seen that at no time of his life was he dependent upon chess-playing as a means of livelihood; although it is difficult to resist the impression that at some periods, particularly 1886, 1B89 and 189B, the claims of business sat very lightly upon him.>

It's from Blake's BCM obit, but I cribbed it was this online source:

http://britishchessnews.com/2020/11...

Stephan Mann's bio over at Yorkshire Chess has this note:

<The American Chess Magazine, Vol. II. No. 2, August 1889, page 55, said of Amos Burn that after the New York chess tournament of 1889 he had lived in the United States for several years, making Chicago his home. He may, of course, have maintained some kind of home on both sides of the pond, as he was nevertheless listed in the 1891 England census.>

https://mannchess.org.uk/People/Bur...

Funny, it looks as if the BCM obit wasn't consulted.

<Amos Burn has a curious dearth, or gap, of games between 1889 and 1895 for some reason. Anyone know why?

I found at least one game during this period, with Sheriff Spens as the opponent. Might be worth adding:

https://books.google.com/books?id=j...

I found it in a German source, but the link is to a better known English language periodical.>

D T Phillips vs Pillsbury, 1899 (kibitz #44)

Yes, thanks <jn>, I have forgotten that. Here's some info from the <British Chess News> website:

<At least once, and probably three times in his life, he made prolonged business visits to America; the occasion as to which there is most certainty was about 1893-5, when he was a year or two at Chicago; Liverpool information puts another visit about 1902-3 (which would account for his non-participation in the Monte Carlo tournaments); and hints dropped by himself point to such a visit in 1882-3 ; this would account for his not competing in either event at the London congress of 1833, and for the non-inclusion of his portrait in the large group picture painted by A. Rosenbaum about 1882, and now hanging in the City of London Chess Clubroom. Upon returning to England he always settled down again in business at Liverpool, where he was occupied, for some time at any rate, in sea insurance>

https://britishchessnews.com/2020/1...