1848 - 1925
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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Among chess players, Amos Burn ranks 170 out of 374. Before 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.
1873 - 1941
HPI: 44.36
Rank: 164
1905 - 1985
HPI: 44.36
Rank: 165
1698 - 1769
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 166
1916 - 1984
HPI: 44.33
Rank: 167
1951 - Present
HPI: 44.31
Rank: 168
1983 - Present
HPI: 44.31
Rank: 169
1848 - 1925
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 170
1905 - 1966
HPI: 44.15
Rank: 171
1960 - Present
HPI: 44.14
Rank: 172
1905 - 1955
HPI: 44.12
Rank: 173
1919 - 2001
HPI: 43.91
Rank: 174
1969 - Present
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 175
1970 - Present
HPI: 43.79
Rank: 176
Among people born in 1848, Amos Burn ranks 103. Before 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 127. Before 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.
1848 - 1908
HPI: 45.52
Rank: 97
1848 - 1926
HPI: 45.37
Rank: 98
1848 - 1922
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 99
1848 - 1931
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 100
1848 - 1915
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 101
1848 - 1922
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 102
1848 - 1925
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 103
1848 - 1926
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 104
1848 - 1928
HPI: 43.67
Rank: 105
1848 - 1928
HPI: 43.18
Rank: 106
1848 - 1923
HPI: 43.14
Rank: 107
1848 - 1928
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 108
1848 - 1941
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 109
1873 - 1925
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 121
1870 - 1925
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 122
1874 - 1925
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 123
1871 - 1925
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 124
1858 - 1925
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 125
1863 - 1925
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 126
1848 - 1925
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 127
1860 - 1925
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 128
1887 - 1925
HPI: 44.25
Rank: 129
1839 - 1925
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 130
1847 - 1925
HPI: 43.81
Rank: 131
1880 - 1925
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 132
1844 - 1925
HPI: 43.59
Rank: 133
Among people born in United Kingdom, Amos Burn ranks 4,111 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1894 - 1978
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 4,105
1886 - 1975
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 4,106
1982 - Present
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 4,107
1576 - 1623
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 4,108
1982 - Present
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 4,109
1919 - 2012
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 4,110
1848 - 1925
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 4,111
1980 - Present
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 4,112
1796 - 1872
HPI: 44.28
Rank: 4,113
1972 - Present
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 4,114
1920 - 2012
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 4,115
1944 - Present
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 4,116
1793 - 1864
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 4,117
Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Amos Burn ranks 7. Before 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).
1810 - 1874
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 1
1841 - 1924
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 2
1971 - Present
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 3
1933 - 2021
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 4
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 5
1830 - 1908
HPI: 46.37
Rank: 6
1848 - 1925
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 8
1965 - Present
HPI: 41.41
Rank: 9
1884 - 1932
HPI: 41.15
Rank: 10
1955 - Present
HPI: 40.62
Rank: 11
1948 - Present
HPI: 36.74
Rank: 12
1967 - Present
HPI: 31.22
Rank: 13