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Amos Burn

1848 - 1925

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Amos Burn (1848–1925) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amos Burn has received more than 32,194 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Amos Burn is the 170th most popular chess player (down from 152nd in 2019), the 4,111th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,709th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Chess Player.

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  • 44.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Amos Burn ranks 170 out of 374Before him are Juan Corzo, Isaac Kashdan, Giambattista Lolli, Paul Felix Schmidt, Rafael Vaganian, and Ruslan Ponomariov. After him are Mir Sultan Khan, Artur Yusupov, Herman Steiner, Chantal Chaudé de Silans, Susan Polgár, and Xie Jun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Amos Burn ranks 103Before him are Joel Chandler Harris, Princess Frederica of Hanover, Josef Václav Myslbek, William Frederick Denning, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, and Jørgen Løvland. After him are Helen Allingham, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Gunnar Knudsen, Bernard Bosanquet, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Diederik Korteweg. Among people deceased in 1925, Amos Burn ranks 127Before him are Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov, Lilian Gibbs, Amy Lowell, Lars Jørgen Madsen, Willard Metcalf, and João Pinheiro Chagas. After him are Roger de Barbarin, Emilio Lunghi, Ignacio Andrade, Wilhelmina Drucker, Christy Mathewson, and Arthur Gardiner Butler.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Amos Burn ranks 4,111 out of 7,765Before him are Oliver Leese (1894), May Sutton (1886), Susie Wolff (1982), Thomas Weelkes (1576), Rebecca Hall (1982), and Patricia Medina (1919). After him are Sam Heughan (1980), Robert Wight (1796), Mark Owen (1972), Clive Dunn (1920), Dave Edmunds (1944), and John Clare (1793).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Amos Burn ranks 7Before him are Howard Staunton (1810), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), Jonathan Penrose (1933), Alexander McDonnell (1798), and Henry Bird (1830). After him are Harry Golombek (1911), Nigel Short (1965), Fred Yates (1884), John Nunn (1955), Raymond Keene (1948), and Stuart Conquest (1967).