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Amos Burn

1848 - 1925

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Amos Burn (31 December 1848 – 25 November 1925) was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer. Burn was born on New Year's Eve, 1848, in Hull. As a teenager he moved to Liverpool, becoming apprenticed to a firm of shipowners and merchants. He learned chess only at the relatively late age of 16. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amos Burn is the 195th most popular chess player (down from 178th in 2019), the 4,681st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,627th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Amos Burn ranks 195 out of 461. Before him are George Koltanowski, Zoltán Ribli, Vladimirs Petrovs, Adolf Schwarz, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Boris Gulko. After him are Clarice Benini, Max Weiss, Leonid Shamkovich, Carl Mayet, Jonathan Penrose, and Fenny Heemskerk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Amos Burn ranks 107. Before him are Otto Bütschli, Waldemar Rosenberger, Helen Allingham, Bernard Bosanquet, George Romanes, and Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde. After him are Eliodoro Villazón, Matthew Webb, Diederik Korteweg, Surendranath Banerjee, Joel Chandler Harris, and Albert Parsons. Among people deceased in 1925, Amos Burn ranks 138. Before him are Lars Jørgen Madsen, Samuel Berger, Ignacio Andrade, Jean de Reszke, Willard Metcalf, and Wilhelmina Drucker. After him are Surendranath Banerjee, Emilio Lunghi, Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov, Christy Mathewson, Clarence Hudson White, and Robert Wrenn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Amos Burn ranks 4,682 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), Luke Young (1979), Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779), Stanley Holloway (1890), John Prescott (1938), and Joe Fry (1915). After him are James Nesbitt (1965), James Collinson (1825), Thomas Tomkins (1572), John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735), Yasmin Le Bon (1964), and Rebecca Hall (1982).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Amos Burn ranks 9. Before him are Nigel Short (1965), Henry Bird (1830), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), Fred Yates (1884), and Horatio Caro (1862). After him are Jonathan Penrose (1933), John Owen (1827), John Nunn (1955), Tony Miles (1955), Harry Golombek (1911), and Raymond Keene (1948).

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