chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

52 BUDAPEST DEFENCE
the 1840si sENnz, however. regarded Buckle as
the better player. ln 1843 Buckle son a naLh
against Stauntoa. who mnceded Pasn and movc
(+6:1), and i. 1848 he defeated rsERrrzKy
(+3:3 2). He won a tnock-out toumanetrl.
Lo on 1849, defeatins wrLLrAMs (+2) in the
second round. In 1851 Buckle deiealed LdENrsAL
(+4=3-1) and held bis o{n in a ser,es of
friendly games againsl ANDENSEN who declarcd
him to be lhe (mngest playcr he had eyer net.
In his youth Buckle suffe.ed ill-hea,th which
inlerfered pilh his schooling. atrd on accounr of
which he w6 often sent abroad ro fairer clinates.
Nevertheless he read widely, su@esstully edNal
ing himselfand learningto speak seyen langu.ges,
His fathar, amerchant, died i. t84.0leaving him afl
anple iorlune, In ihe 1850s Buckle largely gave up
serious cness in lavour oI literary NEuits and
began his g.eat work, fot which he is still
rcnembeted. A Hbtott of Cirili.ation in Eneldad.
the 6rst 1wo volumes of whicb Nere pubthhed in
1857 and 1861. Al Damascus, ot on. ofhis many
irips ab.oad, he ontracted a laral ill.ess, atlegedly
c.yi.g as he died My bookl I hayen\ Ennhed my
adivity, 1897 1901. The besl achievement ol bis
career was ar Cologie 1898. nrt prir (+9=5-l)
anead of cMRous.(, .srcou, Steinitz, scsc.s
tER.andrANomK. ArMunich 1900 he @6e lourlh
(+9=3 l). His last scvcn intcmarional tournaments
began with Ostend 1905 and ended Nilh
Breslatr 1912. A comparative strGess, in view oI his
age, was his iourih prize shared with BETNSEN and
UGMANN alter Schlcchtcr. MAR6czyj and RUDTNsrErN
at Os1cf,d 1906; 36 playe$ competed in lhis
nvc-s1age Fenr, 30 gmes tu all ior tbose Nho
compleled the 6uBe- Retired lron borh busi.css
and play he nade his home in Londo. and edited
lhe chess column of flr Fi€Id lron 1913 until his
death. A shy and rednng nan, a loyalconpanion
ro those who cane 10 know iim. he fieely gave
advi.e 10 young and aspiring playe6.
Maldey Buin O$e.d 19tx, Falkbeer ConnreFsambir
1e4e5 214d5 3exd5e4 4dlNl6 5dxe4urc4 6NB
Bcs 7Qe?BC+l 3Kd1Oxd5+ 9Nld2l5 10Nc3Q'14
llNxe4lxe4 l2c3oe3 13N*4Orc2+ 14Bxe2Bb6 15
Ns5Nc6 l6RelNcT 17BAc6 l3BelBl5 19g,1Bdl
BUDAPES'I DEFENCE, 143. an aggressive mun
teFganbit analyed in 1916 by the BudaPesl
nastes zsigmond Bads (..1878 1935), Abonyi.
.nd Bi.rER. Bar6v originaled lhe idea casually.
and Breyer inlroduced n against Esser in a snaU
ton.namenl ar Budapest in Nov. 1916.
DUILDING A BRIDGE, maki.g a path loi a king
by providins cover Lom atlack by eneny lin.-
pieces. For the best-known example see LUCENA
rcsnoN. Problenists lrequcntly use this device in
the solution ofa sERrEs-Mov.R.
BIJRN, AMOS (1848-1925), oneolthevodd'stoP
ren players at the €nd oI lhe 19rh century. Born in
Hull, he leamed chess *hen 16, ca6e to London at
the age of21, dnd rapidly esr abl ished himsell6 a
le.ding English player. A pnpil oI sclNnz, he
dcrcloped a similar slyle: both he and his mdter
$erc anong lhe world\ best six defensive playe.s,
according io NrMrcwfsco. Not wishing to become
rcr anothe( impecunious professioml. Bum de
cidcdto put his *ork (firsl a cotlon broker thcn a
susar broker) belore hische$. andhe remained an
anateur. He made sevcral loogvisits loAnenca.
and Nas otlen out of p.actice shen he Played
seriouschess. Unril histhtry eighlh year he played
inlrequently and only in nalional events. always
taking Iirst orsccond prize. From 1886 to 1889 be
playcd more olten. In 1886he drew naichesNilh
B,RD (+e -e) and MACENZTE (+,{=2-4)i at
London 1887 he achieled his bcst tournament
result up ro this timc, nntprize (+8 1)equal*nh
cuNsBERc(aplay-offsasdrawn +1=3 1)randat
B.eslau 1889 he loot seco.dplacc altcrIARRAS.H
ahead oiGlnsberg. A1tcr an holated appearance
ar Hasrinss 1895 he eDte.ed a notber sp ell oi chess
Bla.k hrs delenden wdl, and now eri's some onnte.
atack. 21...Rhd3 22Ne6Rd6 23tsxb6axb6 24N'14
c5 25 Nb3 Ng6 26Kd2 Nxl4 27Ks3Nhl 23Bxb7Ra7
29392 Re7+ 30(BBe2+ Ilecandelay
'WlircrcsieN
mte only by giving up a dece,l0Ker Re3+ 3l tsA
aURN VARIATION, 641, a line in the rR.NcH
DEENC! (625) darins lron the 1870s. played
regularly by BLRN at lhe touinaments of Hastings
1895. Cologne 1818, and Vienna 1898. Morc
recently it has been faloured by PEmosYAN.
BUST,oiginally burst', thedenonstrationthatan
opening variation isunsaiislaclory, rbat a @mbioadon
is faulty, or that a study has no solution: to
nake su.h a demonsharion: to demolish.
BWEE, TOUW HIAN (i943 ), lnlemational
Judse oi Chess CompositioDs ( 197?). I.1ff.ational
Masler for Chcss Conposirions (1977). Born in
Pekalonga. (Java), B\ree was raken ro Jakarta
when he Bas 6ve years oldr rbere, in 1958, hc
discovered chess problcms and Nithin thrcc yea6
he began rowin tourneyawa.ds.I.1965 heNent to
Gcijnany to study a.chitecture and civil engineer
ine, and while tbere he becane one oI rhe iorenosr