http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/ We focus on the British Chess Scene Past & Present! Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:24:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-50802 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 19:20:00 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-50802 Hi I wonder if anyone could help me I’ve found a chess set and carved into it is Blackburne no1 just wondered if it ment anything. Would appreciate any help many thanks.

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-34190 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:41:35 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-34190 […] At the B.C.F. Congress, Glasgow, l9ll,he won the only section of the First Class. In 1913 and in 1914 he was Hampstead Club Champion. In 1913 he was tenth in the British Championship, at Cheltenham, and equal fifth to sixth at Chester in the following year, defeating Yates and drawing with Blackburne. […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-30748 Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:16:43 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-30748 […] of the simultaneous exhibitions was by J. H. Blackburne, probably the last this grand player ever gave. I had heard that he was inclined to be slow and, […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-24670 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:32:32 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-24670 Thanks John. Lots of new and interesting information as always, even when it’s a player I thought I knew a fair bit about.

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-14716 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:32:20 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-14716 […] static. He played the Scotch Game in tournaments long after it hat been discarded by Steinitz and Blackburne; the Danish Gambit and the Vienna became in his hands instruments of great attacking potential. As […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-13458 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:17:20 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-13458 […] in several tournaments and in blindfold simuls he drew two games against Lowenthal and one against Blackburne. In 1878 he joined the Croydon Chess Club and once in one of their tournaments scored 23-7. He also […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-10530 Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:46:56 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-10530 […] British Championship, at the Crystal Palace in London 190, was one of his best. He came =2nd with JH Blackburne. RP Mitchell and GE Wainwright with 6.5 points, a point below the winner of the title, HE […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-10459 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:39:17 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-10459 […] British grandmaster (the title dates officially only from 1949, so excluding the likes of Staunton, Blackburne and Burn) and took the £5000 Slater prize for the first British GM to add to the £1000 prize for […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-10432 Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:37:48 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-10432 […] the same event at Oxford in 1910 he again tied with Blackburne, but this time for second and third prizes, Atkins being first, though losing in his individual […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/09/01/remembering-joseph-henry-blackburne-10-xii-1841-01-ix-1924/#comment-10195 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:27:31 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6210#comment-10195 […] Championship, his entry was accepted for the British Championship at Scarborough, and he tied with Blackburne for 4th prize. The following year he again tied with Blackburne, this time for 2nd prize, and in […]

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