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Constant Ferdinand Burille
Aug. 30, 1866 (Boston, MA) - died in 1914 (Boston, MA)
contributed by
Russell
(Rusty) Miller
 The
Brooklyn Eagle Daily newspaper Sunday March 8, 1896 has an article THE
BIG CABLE CHESS MATCH. It has short biographies on the USA players,
and below is one of those bios:
"Constant Ferdinand Burille was born in Boston, August 30, 1866 and
learned to play chess in 1884. He played admirable chess against
many of the strongest players of the sixth American Congress and for
many years was considered to be the strongest player in New England,
giving Pillsbury pawn and move as late as 1891. He was actively
engaged in mercantile business in Boston, but is now most
enthusiastically devoting himself to preparing for the coming match."
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper June 11, 1896:
"Apropos of Burille, he was a party, not long ago to an amusing trick put
upon Pillsbury, in an impromptu fashion, which is told as follows: A certain
member of the chess club was an excellent telegraph operator, but as to his
chess, Pillsbury gave him a rook odds, which was all the telegrapher would
accept, and at this, used to beat him with great regularity. Burille,
too, is a skilled telegraph operator and one day, at the club, when
Pillsbury was engaged in playing with his brother operator, Burille came
over to the board and picking up an ordinary house key, began to click with
it on the chess table, softly yet distinctly, advice as to replies to
Pillsbury's moves, and it is needless to say the advice was taken.
Game succeeded game and Pillsbury, study as he would, was invariably routed.
The funny part of it was that all the traps he laid for the rook player were
walked around, the bait eaten off and an escape effected. At last,
surprised beyond measure, Pillsbury arose with a 'Well, you never played
that way before!', when a universal shout of laughter and a pointing to the
key, which he had heard lightly clicking during the game, opened his eyes to
the fact that he had really been trying to give Burille the odds of a rook all
the evening."
Something else about Burille: Seems the fellow solved 60 two move
chess problems in less than 60 minutes for a wager. Burille was also
one of the operators of the chess-playing machine "Ajeeb". During
his years as operator, he played over 900 games of chess and only lost three
games.
Russell (Rusty) Miller
Out & About - Photo Journalist
www.GoLakeChelan.com
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