Sep-22-24 Burn vs J Bauer, 1889 
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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+ |
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Apr-05-24 C Locock vs Burn, 1888
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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! |
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Jan-08-23 Showalter vs C Locock, 1897
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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). |
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Jan-03-23 Pillsbury vs Blackburne, 1896
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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. |
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Jan-02-23 Tinsley vs J F Barry, 1896
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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. |
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Dec-23-22 Burn vs Marshall, 1911
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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. |
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Jun-28-22 Burn vs J Metger, 1887
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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. |
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Mar-28-22 Amos Burn 
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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 |
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Feb-22-22 Burn vs Mackenzie, 1886
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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). |
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Jul-03-21 Burn vs J Watkinson, 1871
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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). |
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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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