Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene...

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...

its combat effectiveness and black uniforms Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1924), British chess player Henry Johnson (World War I soldier) (1892-1929) an...

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...

Steinkühler vs. Blackburne, 1863 After providing their own definition, Hooper and Whyld cited a miniature won by Joseph Henry Blackburne against Alexander...

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...

1934. The Old Benoni is sometimes called the Blackburne Defense after Englishman Joseph Henry Blackburne, the first player known to have used it successfully...

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...

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...

Bardeleben (1889), Jacques Mieses (1889), Henry Edward Bird (1890), Berthold Englisch (1890), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1892), Jackson Showalter (1892–93) and...

included Adolf Anderssen, Daniel Harrwitz, Henry Bird, Louis Paulsen, Paul Morphy and Joseph Henry Blackburne. The Immortal Game, played by Anderssen and...

sacrifice and subsequent checkmate. 1883: Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Henry Blackburne, London 1889: Emanuel Lasker vs Johann Hermann Bauer, Amsterdam...

Henry Millard (1824–1891), a blind correspondence chess player who drew with the opening in a simultaneous exhibition against Joseph Henry Blackburne...

were mostly in matches, notably against Anderssen in 1871 and Joseph Henry Blackburne in 1881 (6 wins, 2 losses, 5 draws). Nonetheless Zukertort was...

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...

example is the so-called "Blackburne Shilling Gambit" (named after the 19th-century English player Joseph Henry Blackburne, supposedly because he used...

(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...

Federation international tourney, held in London. Second place went to Joseph Henry Blackburne. The great London 1883 chess tournament was won convincingly by...

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...

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...

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...

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),...

Ireland Blackburne (1817–1893), MP for South West Lancashire 1875–1885 Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1921), British chess master Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743)...

players, and the second-best English-born player, behind only Joseph Henry Blackburne. Born and educated at Hull, England, Wisker moved to London in...

never enjoyed widespread popularity among top-flight players, Joseph Henry Blackburne and Jacques Mieses often played it, and greatly developed its theory...

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...

third (+10−5=1) with Szymon Winawer, behind Johannes Zukertort and Joseph Henry Blackburne. This event included 17 master competitors. At the great London...

draws. Other early masters of blindfold chess were Louis Paulsen, Joseph Henry Blackburne (he played up to 16 simultaneous blindfold games), and the first...

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...

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...