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Sep-22-24 Burn vs J Bauer, 1889    shallowred: Spoiler Alert for anyone else attempting the combination: I think you picked up on the key late in-between-move of Ra7+ setting up the re-capture on c1, (and your line may be sound) but Steinitz gave the following sequence: 28...Bxc5 29.dxc5 Rxc5 30.Bxb4 axb4 31.Rxa8 Rxc1 32.Ra7+      Apr-05-24 C Locock vs Burn, 1888   shallowred: This is Burn's first game playing what would become the Burn Variation. Amos scored 9 Tournament Wins, 5 Losses, and 1 Draw with the line (Forster). AND the game has a cool move: 18...Qxa2!      Jan-08-23 Showalter vs C Locock, 1897   shallowred: 12.g5 cuts off the escape for Black's Bishop. If 12... BxP then 13.RxB QxR is a Decoy Sacrifice that un-protects the Bishop and allows 14.BxB; getting 2 Bishops for the Rook. Showalter makes the tactic work in the next few moves (even though Black doesn't play BxP immediately).      Jan-03-23 Pillsbury vs Blackburne, 1896   shallowred: 26... Ra6! is a combination of 2 'Invisible' attacks: A Horizontal Attack by the Rook along with a Backward Attack by the Bishop. Either are not naturally noticed by Humans since we are wired to think of Attacks as forward-events. Our eyes face-forward, as all Predator's eyes do.      Jan-02-23 Tinsley vs J F Barry, 1896   shallowred: 22. f5 would increase the scope of White's Bishop (which is traded on move 41, weakening White's position). The computer couldn't decide on White's 22nd move: going back and forth between e5 and Tinsley's move of Ke3.      Dec-23-22 Burn vs Marshall, 1911   shallowred: Burn was 62 years old when he won this game, and he beat Marshall again a year later. Cool-tempered resilient players (like Burn and Lasker) were still full of fight in their retirement years.      Jun-28-22 Burn vs J Metger, 1887   shallowred: The text is incorrect; 16. Qg4 was not played by Burn. It loses a pawn to 16... NxP 17. Qe2 (or 17. BxN QxB). Burn actually played 16. Qg5 to protect the Pawn and to keep the Queen on the dark squares, with the potential of Qh6.      Mar-28-22 Amos Burn    shallowred: Burn shows up for 25 straight years on the Chess.com YouTube graphic 'The Best Chess Players Over Time (Estimated By Accuracy)' -- Not bad      Feb-22-22 Burn vs Mackenzie, 1886   shallowred: Both masters played very well, and Mackenzie took full advantage of Burn's missed-win (see the post by Benzol above). After this loss, Burn is down 4 wins to 0 in a race to 5 wins but (as noted in both men's bio) Burn battles back and ties the match (+4, =2, -4).      Jul-03-21 Burn vs J Watkinson, 1871   shallowred: Giving names to Master Maneuvers helps me learn: White transforms Black's Queen-Block into a Pin using a Delayed Knight Fork (King moves out of check, QxQ, KxQ then the fork is resumed: NxB).      May-06-21 Zukertort vs Burn, 1886     May-04-21 Bird vs Burn, 1886    Sep-25-20 Alekhine vs Lasker, 1914     Sep-25-20 J Davidson vs Gunsberg, 1911    Mar-08-20 Burn vs O Bernstein, 1906    Feb-09-20 Lasker vs Showalter, 1893    Jul-11-19 Schlechter vs Lasker, 1910     Jun-16-19 Olland vs J Davidson, 1924    Jun-12-19 Jacques Davidson     Jun-11-19 H C Mees vs J Davidson, 1910    Nov-27-18 D Daniuszewski vs P Romanovsky, 1909     Sep-14-18 Salwe vs S Izbinsky, 1903    Jul-22-18 Bird vs Teichmann, 1895    Jul-04-18 F Duz-Khotimirsky vs Chigorin, 1907    Dec-03-17 Capablanca vs G Wainwright, 1913    Jul-11-17 H Wolf vs H Suechting, 1904    Jul-11-17 H Suechting vs W Cohn, 1897     Jun-12-17 Chigorin vs Salwe, 1907     Jan-16-17 M Weiss vs Burn, 1888    Jul-25-15 H Suechting vs Schlechter, 1897    Jul-16-15 Albin vs H Suechting, 1897    Jul-12-15 H Suechting vs von Bardeleben, 1902     Jul-03-15 H Suechting vs Teichmann, 1897    Jun-25-15 W John vs H Suechting, 1904     Jun-13-15 H Suechting vs Blackburne, 1897    Jun-08-15 Walbrodt vs H Suechting, 1897    May-23-15 H Suechting vs J Dimer, 1897     May-10-15 H Suechting vs Janowski, 1894     Apr-25-15 Burn vs Teichmann, 1912    Mar-28-15 Lasker vs Bird, 1890     Feb-08-15 Salwe vs Schlechter, 1907    Jan-27-15 Salwe vs W K von Stamm, 1903    Jan-25-15 H Caro vs H Suechting, 1897    Dec-21-14 von Gottschall vs Burn, 1887    Dec-06-14 A Fritz vs Burn, 1889    Dec-06-14 von Gottschall vs Salwe, 1908    Dec-04-14 A Nimzowitsch vs Salwe, 1907     Oct-13-14 Salwe vs V Omeliansky, 1906    Aug-25-14 Georg Salwe     Jun-29-14 Rubinstein vs Schlechter, 1918     May-22-14 Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914     Apr-22-14 Blackburne vs Gunsberg, 1895    Dec-21-13 Albin vs Burn, 1895    Dec-14-13 E MacDonald vs Burn, 1910     Dec-13-13 Amsterdam (1889)     Jul-06-13 Emanuel Lasker     Feb-11-13 L Forgacs vs Duras, 1909     Aug-30-12 The World vs V Akobian, 2012     Jun-08-12 J S Ryan vs Lasker, 1893    Jun-08-12 Gossip vs Lasker, 1893    Mar-04-12 Lasker vs W E Napier, 1904     Feb-26-12 A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs Lasker, 1925

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