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Sep-15-17
 | | offramp: <ughaibu: Hey, Offramp! How about uploading the extra games?> You can shake your fist and call me names
But I will not upload Burns's games. |
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| Sep-15-17 | | ughaibu: . I must say chief, you cause me grief.
And if chief's a name,
I'll bear the shame,
and take the blame,
but if it's all the same
with you, what you can do,
is turn the screw
on a grandkid or two
and they'll do it for you! |
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| Dec-15-17 | | thegoodanarchist: OMG, I just learned a YUGE!!! Learning!
Here it is:
EVERY...SINGLE....HIPSTER... in existence today.... is modeling himself after AMOS BURN!!!
The well-styled beard. The Lenon spectacles. The Ralphie hair style. IT... IS... ALL... THERE...!!!!!! |
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| Dec-15-17 | | thegoodanarchist: Ralphie from the Simpsons, if you don't know already... |
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| Dec-31-17 | | Sularus: happy birthday!
one of my fave attacking players from the 1800s |
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| Dec-31-17 | | WorstPlayerEver: Happy birthday, Mr. Burn! |
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Feb-09-18
 | | MissScarlett: Was he some sort of radical or non-conformist? Has anyone seen a photo of him wearing a tie? |
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| Feb-09-18 | | TheFocus: <MissScarlett: Was he some sort of radical or non-conformist? Has anyone seen a photo of him wearing a tie?> He wore tie-dyed shirts before they became fashionable.* * (This statement is unproven and probably false as well.) |
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| Feb-09-18 | | zanzibar: Huh?
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/... |
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| Feb-09-18 | | zanzibar: This is a good illustration to tie on(*) with the other one: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Fn1Q2Xx7B... (*) They don't call me Captain Obvious for nuthin! . |
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Feb-09-18
| | MissScarlett: This man shamed Britain attending important international tournaments without a tie: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... We can only be grateful that the imperious Blackburne was present to redress the balance. |
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| Feb-09-18 | | zanzibar: There's one in every crowd:
http://www.creating-purpose.co.uk/c... Though perhaps Burn started a new fashion trend? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gwSEDVM2L... Or should that be, maintained a tradition the others abandoned? |
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| Feb-09-18 | | TheFocus: <MissScarlett: This man shamed Britain attending important international tournaments without a tie> Another rumor, started just now by me, was that Amos also didn't wear socks. |
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| Feb-09-18 | | zborris8: <Amos also didn't wear socks> Yes, I read that somewhere. |
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Aug-10-18
| | offramp: I am at the moment watching a film called <Terror in the Wax Museum>. It is set in Victorian London, even though it has an all-American cast (apart from Elsa Lanchester, she's from Manchester). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terro... The great Broderick Crawford is in it. He plays a guy named Amos Burn s. And there is weird, deformed sidekick called <Karkov>. I bet he has the first name Anatoly, if he was ever given a first name. It's a not very horrific horror film with lots of stars and it is camper than RuPaul's Mazda Bongo. |
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| Aug-10-18 | | Howard: Amos didn't wear socks? I wonder if that doorstop-sized book on him (which I have) mentions that. Charles Nelson Reilly, incidentally, also didn't wear them from what I've heard. |
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| Aug-10-18 | | JimNorCal: Can a chain of chess player names be made such that the initials follow the alphabet? AB Amos Burn
CD Chakk Deepan
EF Ernst Falkbeer
I foresee difficulties ... |
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Aug-10-18
| | MissScarlett: No tie, no socks....did Amos Burn <go commando>? |
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Aug-10-18
 | | WannaBe: GH Ghazal Hakimifard
IJ Ivan Jakic
KL Kjell Lien
MN Myo Niang
OP Oliver Paez
QR
ST
UV
WX
YZ
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Aug-10-18
| | MissScarlett: West London Observer, November 27th 1925, p.9:
<Mr. Amos Burn, 76, the well-known chess master, died suddenly at his flat at Brook Green, Hammersmith, on Wednesday morning. The previous evening he entertained a friend to supper and a discussion of chess problems. After the meal the two men were chatting together when Mr. Burn put his hand to his head and said, "What a pain I have got here." Rising from his chair, he staggered and would have fallen into the fire had not his friend been quick enough to save him. A doctor, resident in the same block of flats, was immediately called, and found that Mr. Burn was suffering from a stroke. His friend remained with him during the night, but Mr. Burn's condition was hopeless, and he passed away at 2 p.m.> |
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| Aug-10-18 | | Paint My Dragon: <died ... on Wednesday morning ... at 2 p.m.> Shouldn't that be 2 a.m.? |
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Aug-11-18
| | MissScarlett: I had noted the discrepancy (naturally, the mistake was not mine), but was unsure where the error lay. Perhaps <2 p.m. [sic]> was in order. |
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Aug-13-18
| | offramp: How about
QR
Rabeea Qasim Mohammed Al-Qazzaz as "Qasim Rabeea". Oherwise this might be an insurmountable hurdle.
ST
UV
WX
YZ |
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| Aug-13-18 | | morfishine: ST = Sam Tankland |
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| Aug-13-18 | | morfishine: For "UV": Uriel Capo Vidal
Uriel Capo Vidal |
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