CHESS PLAYER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amos Burn has received more than 35,229 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Amos Burn is the 178th most popular chess player (down from 170th in 2019), the 4,627th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,103rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Chess Player.

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  • 44.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Amos Burn ranks 178 out of 461. Before him are Ruslan Ponomariov, Ding Liren, Chantal Chaudé de Silans, Adolf Schwarz, Herman Steiner, and Hikaru Nakamura. After him are Max Weiss, Mir Sultan Khan, Albin Planinc, Győző Forintos, Juan Corzo, and Serafino Dubois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Amos Burn ranks 113. Before him are Waldemar Rosenberger, Jørgen Løvland, Lewis Howard Latimer, Otto Bütschli, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, and Matthew Webb. After him are Albert Parsons, W. G. Grace, Eliodoro Villazón, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louisa Lawson, and B. B. Comer. Among people deceased in 1925, Amos Burn ranks 137. Before him are João Pinheiro Chagas, Lars Jørgen Madsen, Nikolai Golitsyn, Wilhelmina Drucker, Willard Metcalf, and Christy Mathewson. After him are Arvid Knöppel, Lilian Gibbs, Rudolf Schlechter, Emilio Lunghi, Clarence Hudson White, and Lucille Ricksen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Amos Burn ranks 4,627 out of 8,785. Before him are Matthew Carter (1937), Paul Nash (1889), Allan Jay (1931), Parminder Nagra (1975), Neil Kinnock (1942), and Howard Kendall (1946). After him are Guy Simonds (1903), Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), Annie Kenney (1879), Jonathan Palmer (1956), Arthur Symons (1865), and Nick Rhodes (1962).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Amos Burn ranks 7. Before him are Howard Staunton (1810), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), Alexander McDonnell (1798), Horatio Caro (1862), and Henry Bird (1830). After him are Jonathan Penrose (1933), John Owen (1827), John Nunn (1955), Nigel Short (1965), Tony Miles (1955), and Harry Golombek (1911).

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