num_pages: 592
description: During a career spanning more than 50 years J.H. Blackburne (1841-1924) won the British Chess Championship and several international tournaments at his peak becoming one of the world's top three chess masters. A professional player who derived his livelihood from annual tours of chess clubs in England and other countries entertaining and teaching amateur players he astonished his contemporaries by the ease with which he played the game without sight of the chessboard. At 21 he set a world record for such exhibitions competing against 12 club players simultaneously and he continued to perform blindfold into his sixties.
language: English
title: Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography
publisher: McFarland