Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene...
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Légal Trap (redirect from Blackburne Trap)
sacrifice. The trap is named after the French player Sire de Légall. Joseph Henry Blackburne, a British master and one of the world's top five players in the...
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its combat effectiveness and black uniforms Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1924), British chess player Henry Johnson (World War I soldier) (1892-1929) an...
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London. In 1862–63 Steinitz scored a crushing win in a match with Joseph Henry Blackburne, who went on to be one of the world's top ten for 20 years, but...
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Pure mate (section Steinkühler vs. Blackburne, 1863)
Steinkühler vs. Blackburne, 1863 After providing their own definition, Hooper and Whyld cited a miniature won by Joseph Henry Blackburne against Alexander...
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trap is what gives the line its name; the great English master Joseph Henry Blackburne reputedly used it to win one shilling per game from café visitors...
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1934. The Old Benoni is sometimes called the Blackburne Defense after Englishman Joseph Henry Blackburne, the first player known to have used it successfully...
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the first British player to beat a reigning world champion since Joseph Henry Blackburne defeated Emanuel Lasker in 1899. Penrose's over the board performance...
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regularity in the games of certain masters, including F.J. Lee, Joseph Henry Blackburne and Akiba Rubinstein. The name London System derives from the reappearance...
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Bardeleben (1889), Jacques Mieses (1889), Henry Edward Bird (1890), Berthold Englisch (1890), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1892), Jackson Showalter (1892–93) and...
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included Adolf Anderssen, Daniel Harrwitz, Henry Bird, Louis Paulsen, Paul Morphy and Joseph Henry Blackburne. The Immortal Game, played by Anderssen and...
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Henry Millard (1824–1891), a blind correspondence chess player who drew with the opening in a simultaneous exhibition against Joseph Henry Blackburne...
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sacrifice and subsequent checkmate. 1883: Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Henry Blackburne, London 1889: Emanuel Lasker vs Johann Hermann Bauer, Amsterdam...
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Ireland Blackburne (1817–1893), MP for South West Lancashire 1875–1885 Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1921), British chess master Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743)...
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two-game playoff against Joseph Henry Blackburne at the end. He played no serious chess until an 1876 match against Blackburne that Steinitz swept 7–0...
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He tied for 7–8th in the first tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won), and took 14th in the second one (Wilhelm Steinitz and Szymon...
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(Johannes Zukertort won). In 1885, he took fourth place in Hereford (Joseph Henry Blackburne won), and took seventh in Hamburg 1885 (Isidor Gunsberg won). In...
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example is the so-called "Blackburne Shilling Gambit" (named after the 19th-century English player Joseph Henry Blackburne, supposedly because he used...
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Federation international tourney, held in London. Second place went to Joseph Henry Blackburne. The great London 1883 chess tournament was won convincingly by...
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Life of Alonzo Wheeler Jerome, blog post, July 27, 2009 Joseph Henry Blackburne, Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess, selected, annotated and arranged by himself...
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tournament, and decisively winning a match over Joseph Henry Blackburne 7–0 (0 draws) in 1876. Apart from the Blackburne match, Steinitz played no competitive chess...
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sufficient to beat the leading attacking players of his day such as Joseph Henry Blackburne (+5−0=3), Mikhail Chigorin (+6−4=7), Frank Marshall (+11−6=8),...
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never enjoyed widespread popularity among top-flight players, Joseph Henry Blackburne and Jacques Mieses often played it, and greatly developed its theory...
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were mostly in matches, notably against Anderssen in 1871 and Joseph Henry Blackburne in 1881 (6 wins, 2 losses, 5 draws). Nonetheless Zukertort was...
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players, and the second-best English-born player, behind only Joseph Henry Blackburne. Born and educated at Hull, England, Wisker moved to London in...
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One of his first places was ahead of Steinitz, Gustav Neumann, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Louis Paulsen and several other very strong players at the Baden-Baden...
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draws. Other early masters of blindfold chess were Louis Paulsen, Joseph Henry Blackburne (he played up to 16 simultaneous blindfold games), and the first...
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minus against Chigorin (+7−8=6), Tarrasch (+5−6=2) and against Joseph Henry Blackburne (+3−5=4), while he beat David Janowski (+6−4=2) and Géza Maróczy...
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third (+10−5=1) with Szymon Winawer, behind Johannes Zukertort and Joseph Henry Blackburne. This event included 17 master competitors. At the great London...
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surprised the pundits by tying for first with John Wisker, ahead of Joseph Henry Blackburne and others, but lost the playoff to Wisker. His last was Breslau...
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