Graham K. Burgess (born 24 February 1968 in Liverpool, England) is an
English FIDE Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
of
chess
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and a noted writer and trainer. He became a
FIDE Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
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
Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time than classical chess time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. A ...
(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 Book of the Year Award in 1997. He is the editorial director of
Gambit Publications
Gambit Publications is a major publisher of chess books. The company's headquarters is in London. It has published more than 200 chess books.
The company was founded by three chess players. Grandmaster (GM) John Nunn is the chess director, G ...
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He is also a
Doom (1993) speedrunner.
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* First edition (1997) also published in hardback as ''Chess: Tactics and Strategy'', Castle Books, 2002,
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1968 births
Living people
English chess players
English chess writers
English sportswriters
Chess FIDE Masters
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