Amos Burn: A Chess Biography

by Richard Forster

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786477261
• ISBN13: 9780786477265
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 984 Pages
• Weight: 4.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 9.1" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher