Amos Burn A Chess Biography |
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| Author:
| Forster, Richard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-7726-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2014 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00USD $7.50 |
Book Description:
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This enormous and definitive work on the Englishman Amos Burn assembles and analyses 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. Burn's life is painstakingly traced from his birth on the last day of 1848 to his death of a stroke at age 76.
This enormous and definitive work on the Englishman Amos Burn assembles and analyses 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. Burn's life is painstakingly traced from his birth on the last day of 1848 to his death of a stroke at age 76.