* Zukertort's Immortal: Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Henry Blackburne, London, 1883 Zukertort sacrifices his Queen but Blackburne cannot accept, Zukertort sacrifices a rook which Blackburne declines, soon Zukertort forces Blackburne to take the rook and resign 3 moves later.

In July 1861 he lost 5-0 in a match with Manchester's strongest player, Edward Pindar ( and champion of the Provinces ), but 3 months later Blackburne defeated Pindar ( five wins, two draws, one loss ).

Blackburne's introduction to blindfold chess was a little later: in November 1861 Louis Paulsen give a simultaneous blindfold exhibition in Manchester, beating Blackburne among others ; Blackburne was soon playing chess blindfolded with three players simultaneously.

It was housed in a merchant's mansion across the street from the boys ' school in Blackburne House provided by the generosity of Mr. George Holt and which was later ( 1872 ) donated to the school by his family in his memory.

Lancelot Blackburne, later becoming Archbishop of York, sails with buccaneers.

At London 1883 he failed to place for the first time, but later that year at Nuremberg ( 3rd German Congress ) he finished first, defeating Blackburne who took second place.

Although tournaments were much less frequent then than they are now, Blackburne played in nearly one strong tournament per year from 1870 to 1899 ; in particular he competed regularly in the German Chess Championship, which was an open tournament.

Other early masters of blindfold chess were Louis Paulsen, Joseph Henry Blackburne ( he played up to 16 simultaneous blindfold games ) and the first world champion Wilhelm Steinitz, who played in Dundee, in 1867, six simultaneous blindfold games ( three wins, three draws ).

White can also delay the immediate 3. exd6, playing 3. Nf3 first, when after 3 ... Bg4, 4. e4 Nd7 transposes into a gambit line of the Philidor Defence played by Blackburne.

National Master Hugh Myers called it " Millard's Opening " after Henry Millard ( 1824 – 91 ), a blind correspondence chess player who drew with the opening in a simultaneous exhibition against Joseph Henry Blackburne.

The Légal Trap or Blackburne Trap ( also known as Legal Pseudo-Sacrifice and Legal Mate ) is a chess opening trap, characterized by a queen sacrifice followed by checkmate with minor pieces if Black accepts the sacrifice.

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit is the name facetiously given to a dubious chess opening, derived from an offshoot of the Italian Game, that begins 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nd4?!

However, Wall has questioned this, stating that there are no recorded games of Blackburne with the opening.

His record in matches was equally impressive: at Berlin in 1890 he drew a short play-off match against his brother Berthold ; and won all his other matches from 1889 to 1893, mostly against top-class opponents: Curt von Bardeleben ( 1889 ; ranked 9th best player in the world by Chessmetrics at that time ), Jacques Mieses ( 1889 ; ranked 11th ), Henry Edward Bird ( 1890 ; then 60 years old ; ranked 29th ), Berthold Englisch ( 1890 ; ranked 18th ), Joseph Henry Blackburne ( 1892, without losing a game ; Blackburne was aged 51 then, but still 9th in the world ), Jackson Showalter ( 1892 – 1893 ; 22nd ) and Celso Golmayo Zúpide ( 1893 ; 29th ).

According to Chessmetrics, Gunsberg's best single performance was his 1887 match against Blackburne, where he scored 8 of 13 possible points ( 62 %).

Pillsbury also had an even score against Steinitz (+ 5 − 5 = 3 ), but a slight 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 (+ 4 − 3 = 7 ) and had a significant edge over Carl Schlechter (+ 8 − 2 = 9 ).

During this period top-class tournaments were rare and Zukertort's best performances were mostly in matches, notably against Anderssen in 1871 and Joseph Henry Blackburne in 1881 ( 6 wins, 2 losses, 5 draws ).

His results after the 1886 match declined steeply: seventh at London and third at Nottingham in 1886 ; fifteenth at Frankfurt and fourth at London in 1887 ; lost a match in 1887 against Blackburne ( 1 win, 5 losses, and 8 draws ); and seventh at London in 1888.

Janowski was devastating against the older masters such as Wilhelm Steinitz (+ 5 − 2 ), Mikhail Chigorin (+ 17 − 4 = 4 ) and Joseph Henry Blackburne (+ 6 − 2 = 2 ).

Nonetheless Zukertort was one of the most successful tournament players of his time: third place behind Steinitz and Blackburne at London, 1872 ; first place at Cologne and second at Leipzig in 1877 ; tied for first with Simon Winawer at the Paris International Chess Congress in 1878 and beat Winawer in the playoff ; second at Berlin in 1881, behind Blackburne ; tied for fourth at Vienna in 1882 ; first at London in 1883, 3 points ahead of Steinitz.

At the great London tournament of 1883, he finished fourth (+ 16-10 = 0 ) behind Zukertort, Wilhelm Steinitz and Blackburne.

Less than two years after learning the moves, Blackburne entered the 1862 London International Tournament ( the world's first chess round-robin or all-play-all tournament ) and defeated Wilhelm Steinitz in their individual game, although Blackburne finished in 9th place.

His best results were 1st equal with Steinitz at Vienna 1873, where the commentators nicknamed Blackburne " the Black Death " ( Steinitz won the play-off ); 1st in London 1876 with a score of 10 / 11, ahead of Zukertort ; and 1st in Berlin 1881, 3 points ahead of Zukertort.

Burn's first major tournament was the Third Challenge Cup of the British Chess Association ( London 1870 ), where he surprised the pundits by tying for first with John Wisker, ahead of Joseph Henry Blackburne and others, but lost the playoff to Wisker.

Burn's greatest tournament results were equal first at London 1887 with Isidor Gunsberg ( ahead of Joseph Henry Blackburne and Johannes Zukertort ), first at Amsterdam 1889 ( ahead of a young Emanuel Lasker ), second at Breslau 1889 ( behind Siegbert Tarrasch ), and first at Cologne 1898 ( ahead of Rudolf Charousek, Mikhail Chigorin, Carl Schlechter, David Janowski, and Steinitz ).

He was born in London, a younger brother of Richard Blackburne.

His first international tournament was Berlin 1881, where he was equal third (+ 10-5 = 1 ) with Szymon Winawer, behind Johannes Zukertort and Joseph Henry Blackburne.

Joseph Henry Blackburne ( 10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924 ), nicknamed " The Black Death ", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century.

Blackburne also published a collection of his own games, and was a chess correspondent for a leading journal until his death.

Ironically Joseph Blackburne became famous for his heavy drinking of whisky while playing chess.

Up to that point time-keeping was measured with hourglasses, and it was Blackburne who suggested chess clocks.

This trip cost Blackburne his job back in Manchester ( accounts vary about what it was ), and he became a professional chess player.

He finished fourth in the very strong St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, behind only World Champion Lasker and future World Champions José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, and ahead of Marshall, Ossip Bernstein, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Blackburne, Janowski, and Gunsberg.

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* Joseph Henry Blackburne ( 1841 – 1921 ), British chess master

Marshall finished fifth at the St. Petersburg tournament in 1914, behind World Champion Lasker, future World Champions Capablanca and Alekhine, and former World Championship challenger Tarrasch, but ahead of the players who did not qualify for the final: Ossip Bernstein, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Blackburne, Janowski, and Gunsberg.

In the same tournament he also beat Joseph Blackburne ( who placed 2nd ) and Emil Schallopp.

He was 12th out of 19 players at Nuremberg 1896, ahead of Marco, Albin, Winawer and defeating the tournament winner ( in the final round ), world champion Emanuel Lasker, Janowski and Blackburne.

Her portrait of The Reverend Matthew Blackburne Grier was particularly well-received, as was Sita and Sarita, a portrait of her cousin Charles W. Leavitt's wife Sarah ( Allibone ) Leavitt in white, with a small black cat perched on her shoulder, both gazing out mysteriously.

* 1968 – Lena Blackburne, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1886 )

He studied architecture under E. L. Blackburne ( 1833 – 1836 ).

* Lena Blackburne ( 1886 – 1968 ), major league baseball player and manager best known for his discovery of a mud in a tributary of the Delaware River near Palmyra which is still used to rub down baseballs allowing pitchers to gain better control over the ball.

In 1736 he was made the head chaplain of King George II's wife Caroline, on the advice of Lancelot Blackburne.

In match play, he defeated Joseph Blackburne and Henry Bird in 1886.

The British historian F. H. Blackburne Daniel considered him to be a man of bad character, as Timothy allegedely adopted the Non-Chalcedonian doctrines out of ambition rather than conviction.

Theological arguments for mortalism which contended it was not taught in the Bible were made by mortalists such as Francis Blackburne, Joseph Priestley, and Samuel Bourne.

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

These birds were named after Anna Blackburne, an English botanist.

At the Leipzig 1960 Olympiad, he defeated new world champion Mikhail Tal with the white pieces in a Modern Benoni: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. Bd3 Bg7 8. Nge2 0-0 9. 0-0 a6 10. a4 Qc7 11. h3 Nbd7 12. f4 Re8 13. Ng3 c4 14. Bc2 Nc5 15. Qf3 Nfd7 16. Be3 b5 17. axb5 Rb8 18. Qf2 axb5 19. e5 dxe5 20. f5 Bb7 21. Rad1 Ba8 22. Nce4 Na4 23. Bxa4 bxa4 24. fxg6 fxg6 25. Qf7 + Kh8 26. Nc5 Qa7 27. Qxd7 Qxd7 28. Nxd7 Rxb2 29. Nb6 Rb3 30. Nxc4 Rd8 31. d6 Rc3 32. Rc1 Rxc1 33. Rxc1 Bd5 34. Nb6 Bb3 35. Ne4 h6 36. d7 Bf8 37. Rc8 Be7 38. Bc5 Bh4 39. g3 1 – 0This victory made him the first British player to beat a world champion since Joseph Henry Blackburne defeated Emanuel Lasker in 1899.