Graham K. Burgess (born 24 February 1968 in Liverpool, England) is an
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FIDE Master
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of
chess
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and a noted writer and trainer. He became a
FIDE Master
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at the age of twenty. He attended Birkdale High School in Southport, Merseyside. In 1989 he graduated from the
University of Cambridge
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with a degree in mathematics. In 1994 he set a
world record
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by playing 510 games of
blitz chess
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(five minutes for each player) in three days, winning 431 games and drawing 25 .
Burgess has written more than twenty books and edited more than 250. His book ''The Mammoth Book of Chess'' won the
British Chess Federation
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Book of the Year Award in 1997. He is the editorial director of
Gambit Publications. .
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1968 births
Living people
English chess players
British chess writers
British sportswriters
Chess FIDE Masters
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