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There is almost no contemporary coverage of two
of the three tournaments from which Richard Forster is searching for games
by Amos Burn -- certainly not in the British Chess Magazine.
However, two fragments of Burn games are given from Llandudno 1901, both
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Burn - Bellingham
[1r3rk1/2p3pp/1b6/1p1pP3/3P4/1N2BPpb/1PB3Pq/R2QRK2]
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“It will be seen that Mr. Burn went through his
section without the loss of a game, but he had a narrow escape in one of
his games with Mr. Bellingham, who played an attack invented by Captain
Mackenzie, sacrificing a Kt at KKt6. In the position shown, Mr. Burn
played 22 Q-K2 (R-K2 was better), giving an opportunity for 22...Q-R8ch;
23 B-Kt sq, BxP ch; 24 QxB, RxPch, winning easily. Instead, Bellingham
played 22...RxPch; 23 QxR, BxPch; 24 QxB, R-KBsq ch; 25 K-K2, QxQch; 26
K-Q3, and Black had eventually to fall back on a perpetual check to draw.” |
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British Chess Magazine, 1901, p63
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Bellingham - Burn
[8/2p2k2/1p2p3/2p1P3/5BK1/1Pb4P/2P5/8]
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“Burn appeared to have the worst of his other game
with Bellingham at one stage, but he cleverly brought about a draw by skilful
manoeuvring of the Bishop in the position shown. The continuation
was:-- 37...P-QKt4; 38 P-R4 P-B3; 39 P-R5 B-R5 [sic]; 40 K-Kt5 B-Qsq
ch; 41 K-R6 B-R5; 42 B-Kt5 B-Kt6 and a draw resulted.” |
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British Chess Magazine, 1901, p63-64
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Fortunately, a complete game of Burn’s survives
from Llandudno; |
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Burn - W. H. Gunston
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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 d5 4.Nxe5 Nxe4 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.0-0 0-0 7.c4 c6 8.Nc3
Nxc3 9.bxc3 Bxe5 10.dxe5 dxc4 11.Bxc4 Qe7 12.Qd6 Re8 13.Qxe7 Rxe7 14.Rd1
Nd7 15.f4 Re8 16.a4 Nb6 17.Bb3 Bg4 18.Rd6 Rad8 19.Ba3 Nc8 20.Rxd8 Rxd8
21.a5 Be6 22.Bc2 Rd2 23.Be4 Bd5 24.Re1 Bxe4 25.Rxe4 Rd8 26.Rd4 Rxd4 27.cxd4
f6 28.e6 f5 29.g4 g6 30.g5 Kg7 31.Kf2 b6 32.a6 Kg8 33.Ke3 Kg7 34.Kd3 Kg8
35.Kc4 Kg7 36.d5 c5 37.Kb5 Kf8 38.Kc6 Ke7 39.Bb2 1-0. |
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Illustrated London News, 1901.01.19,
p82
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Perhaps The Field for the appropriate years
would have other games from these tournaments. |
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