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Richard Forster: Amos Burn - A Chess Biography. Foreword by Viktor Korchnoi.

In English. Algebraic Figurine Notation. 866 games annotated in depth.

Part I: 1848-1886
The Early Years; In the Chess Mecca; Provincial Chess Champion; C.C.A. Champion; Match Play with John Owen; The Final Break; Gradual Ascent.
Part II: 1886-1894
Gaining International Fame; Chess in Liverpool and London; Further Tournaments; Reaching the Peak; The Second Break.
Part III: 1895-1904
Comeback at Hastings; Local and Club Affairs; British Amateur Champion; New International Successes; The Third Break.
Part IV: 1905-1925
Chess Doyen in Liverpool; Barmen and Ostend Congresses; Last Tournaments; The Final Years.
Tournament and Match Record; Bibliography; Indexes of Openings, Annotators, Themes, Players.

This definitive work on the Englishman Amos Burn assembles and analyzes all extant games and provides a thorough biography of the famous chess master of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It chronicles in exceptional detail the broader picture of chess development throughout that era. Active for a long time, Burn was a fighting player who relished tactical battles against his more romantic rivals but was also one of the world’s best defensive players. Burn’s life is painstakingly traced from his birth in 1848 to his death of a stroke at age 76. Extensive quotations of notes by Burn and his peers accompany accounts of the great international tournaments in which he took part. Where necessary, old analysis is corrected and supplemented. Meticulous research has been undertaken in newspapers and periodicals from numerous countries, and many forgotten games have been unearthed. The book features approximately 800 games played by Burn, almost all of them annotated, 859 chess diagrams, and 209 photographs. There are three appendices, notes, bibliography, and indices of openings, annotators, games, players, and general subjects.

Richard Forster holds a doctorate in computational linguistics and the international master title in chess. He works as a specialist in artificial intelligence. He was chess columnist of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung for more than 20 years and has participated in six chess Olympiads.

xii + 972 pp in publisher's blue linen binding with gilt print on front cover and spine. McFarland, Jefferson, 2004. Condition VG. Weight 2,505 g!

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