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| Jan-11-04 | | kevin86: I can't avoid making a comment on the "pipe man".Burn was described as a defensive player who likes long sessions of close,tight chess.He is most known for his pipe;it seems that his style of chess only worked with pipesmoke (as opposed to gunsmoke). Marshall described,with great detail,the trials and tribulations of Mr. Burn lighting his pipe while Marshall beat him to a pulp. |
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| Mar-05-04 | | Egghead: Apt name, then. |
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| Apr-14-04 | | capanegra: Chessgames.com, if your are interested, there’s a nice picture of Burn in http://www.worldchessrating.com/536... |
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| Jul-15-04 | | fred lennox: <a defensive player who likes long sessions of close, tight chess.> He also liked close, tight offense. As this game. E Delmar vs Burn, 1889 He is the Adams of his day. |
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| Oct-20-04 | | PivotalAnorak: The most fantastic move ever played by Burn is alas not (yet ?) to find in this database. Check this out (item #258): http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/... |
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| Oct-20-04 | | percyblakeney: Burn won the tournament in Cologne 1898, a point ahead of Charousek and Chigorin. Steinitz, Schlechter and Janowski were some other good names distanced by Burn. |
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| Oct-23-04 | | morphynoman2: Pivotal, I agree with you. I've submitted that game twice, MacDonald-Burn to chessgames.com. I dont know the reason why this game is always rejected here. It is perhaps an apocriph game? |
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| Oct-23-04 | | WMD: When did you submit the game? It usually takes a couple of weeks minimum to see the light of day. |
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Oct-23-04
 | | Sneaky: I've had a game in the queue for over a month now. Just about everything I've ever submitted made it in eventually, though. |
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| Nov-02-04 | | aw1988: It isn't hard to come ahead of Steinitz in 1898. :( |
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| Nov-16-04 | | Knight13: I can't believe this guy smashed Henry Bird so easly in their matches. And he beat Joseph Blackburne. I think he can beat Adolf Anderssen, but he can't beat Paul Morphy. This guy is too good! he beat Bird, Blackburne and even Steinitz! I bet he would've have been the World Champion! |
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| Nov-18-04 | | Hidden Skillz: <knight> what makes u think he cannot beat paul? |
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| Nov-19-04 | | percyblakeney: <It isn't hard to come ahead of Steinitz in 1898> It's not that easy either... :) After 36 rounds in Vienna 1898 the final result was: 1 Tarrasch 27.5
2 Pillsbury 27.5
3 Janowski 25.5
4 Steinitz 23.5
5 Schlechter 21.5
6 Chigorin 20
7 Burn 20
8 Lipke 19.5
9 Maróczy 19.5
10 Alapin 18
11 Blackburne 17
12 Schiffers 17
13 Marco 16.5
14 Showalter 15
15 Walbrodt 14.5
16 Halprin 14
17 Caro 12.5
18 Baird 8
19 Trenchard 5 |
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| Nov-19-04 | | capanegra: It was thanks to Burn that Pillsbury didn't win in Vienna 1898. |
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Dec-23-04
 | | Benzol: Amos Burn
Born 31st December 1848 in Hull, Yorkshire England
Died 25th November 1925 in Hammersmith, London England
He came 1st= in the British Championship of 1870 but lost the playoff.
He was German Champion in 1898. |
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Dec-24-04
 | | cu8sfan: If you want to know pretty much everything about Burn: Switzerland's IM Richard Forster wrote a book about him which has almost 1000 pages: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t... |
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Dec-24-04
| | cu8sfan: Here's the direct link to Richard Forster's page on his book about Burn: http://chesshistory.com/burn/index.... |
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| Jan-01-05 | | Knight13: <Hidden Skillz: <knight> what makes u think he cannot beat paul?> Because Paul Morphy was stronger than every opponent he faced. |
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| Jan-19-05 | | percyblakeney: Burn quotes from Richard Forster's aforementioned monster of a book, which arrived in the mail today: "The player who combinates is lost!"
"Never move your queen's bishop unless you cannot help it." |
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| Aug-26-05 | | Chessman1: This guy did beat those nice champions a long time ago but if he was still alive at this time he wouldin't be the world champion, well that's what I think. But if he was alive he would still have to face Robert James Fischer and Garrry Kasparov and those other good players to see if he would be a world champion in chess. |
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| Aug-26-05 | | RookFile: The quote about the queen's bishop
actually shows a very modern undestanding of the game. Most masters today develop that piece late. |
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| Sep-04-05 | | Averageguy: Everyone says that Burn was a tight defensive player, but I think that he was also a brilliant tactician when he wanted to be, for example ckeck his game against Blackburne in England, 1866. |
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| Dec-20-05 | | error: It would be great to have a photo of Burn with his large beard in this site. |
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Feb-06-06
 | | offramp: That is a wacky picture of Burn. It looks like he is trying to escape from The Village. |
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| Jun-25-06 | | percyblakeney: In 1890 William Sonneborn published a statistical survey over the relative strength of tournament players. It included all the big tournaments from Paris 1867 to New York and Breslau 1889 (in all 19 tournaments). Apart from a “simple” calculation of the winning percentage of the players there was also a more complicated evaluation based on the strength of the opponents. Here is the top dozen of the more “refined” ranking (from Richard Forster’s <Amos Burn – A Chess Biography>): 1. Steinitz
2. Burn
3. Blackburne
4. Tarrasch
5. Winawer
6. Gunsberg
7. von Bardeleben
8. Zukertort
9. Mackenzie
10. Weiss
11. Chigorin
12. Lipschütz
Only counting winning percentage it looks like this, with the number of tournaments given in parenthesis: 1. Steinitz 76.07 (7 tournaments)
2. Blackburne 68.60 (16 tournaments)
3. Burn 67.77 (7 tournaments)
4. Tarrasch 67.59 (3 tournaments)
5. Winawer 66.01 (7 tournaments)
6. Zukertort 65.91 (9 tournaments)
7. Mackenzie 64.10 (8 tournaments)
8. Lipschütz 64.00 (2 tournaments)
9. von Bardeleben 63.38 (4 tournaments)
10. Gunsberg 63.25 (10 tournaments)
11. Weiss 62.59 (6 tournaments)
12. Chigorin 60.62 (4 tournaments)
Zukertort would have been higher placed if not for some bad results in his last years, as Tarrasch and Chigorin would have if the survey had been made a few years later. |
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