Graham Burgess

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Graham K. Burgess (born 1968) is an English FIDE Master of chess and a noted writer and trainer. He became a FIDE Master at the age of twenty. In 1989 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in mathematics. In 1994 he set a world record by playing 510 games of blitz chess (five minutes for each player) in three days, winning 431 games and drawing 25 (Burgess 2000:448-52).

Burgess has written at least eighteeen books and edited more than 150. His book The Mammoth Book of Chess won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award in 1997. He is the editorial director of Gambit Publications. (Burgess 2000:title page).

[edit] Books

• Nunn, John; Gallagher, Joe; Emms, John & Burgess, Graham (1999), Nunn's Chess Openings, Everyman Chess, ISBN 978-1857442212 
• Burgess, Graham (2000), The Mammoth Book of Chess (second ed.), Carroll & Graf Publishers, ISBN 0-7867-0725-9 
• Burgess, Graham; Nunn, John & Emms, John (2004), The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (second ed.), Carroll & Graf, ISBN 978-0-7867-1411-7 

[edit] References

• Burgess, Graham (2000), The Mammoth Book of Chess (second ed.), Carroll & Graf Publishers, ISBN 0-7867-0725-9 

[edit] External links

• FIDE rating card for Graham K Burgess