Henry Thomas Buckle

Beware not to confuse the two, from Harding's site about his new Blackburne book:

<"Mr. Bird was also in bad health during the whole of the Tournament, for his old enemy the gout had got fairly hold of him and hence his play is much below his usual standard. Seldom or never did he display his wonderful resources in difficulties and once a game went against him he seemed to collapse right off ; indeed no one seeing the games would trace any signs of Bird's play in his ordinary form. Gout, however, is a heavy handicapper, and it says no little for Bird's pluck that he continued to play on under these adverse circumstances, and not only to play but to beat Pollock and Mortimer and to draw with Mason."

http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-...

It is only 75 buckaroonies if you want a punt.

"H.E. Bird, A Chess Biography with 1,198 Games. By Hans Renette."

Hans Renette would be a good name for the wife/partner of Hans Ree.

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Note.—The etiquette of chess requires the player to remain in the room, and in fact sitting at the play table, whilst his opponent is considering his moves. As a game at present time-limit lasts six or eight hours, patience becomes a very valuable quality if not a virtue. The long waiting is naturally more onerous to one of 60 years of age than to one of 30. We may not work, read, take a walk, or study, and looking out of a window is not good form; we find these long waits very irksome. It is absurd to say that better chess is produced by it: take the games in the Steinitz and Zukertort match, the Tarrasch and Tchigorin, and the present one or most recent between Steinitz and Lasker, test them, and we find more than an average of faults. Given a good fat blunder at chess we should at first look for it in a long time move. <Besides, if eight hours—a fair intellectual working day—is necessary for a game at chess, why not at once play these matches by correspondence, for no one cares to look long on them at present pace.><<>>

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It's actually a "top"-note on p12. (em added)

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Mr. Van Vliet writes:—"The aged Chess master, Mr. H. E. Bird, has been ill for some time at 16, Chetwode Road. Upper Tooting, S.W.
Mr. H. A. Richardson, of the St. George's Chess Club, suggests that it would be a real kindness if some of Mr. Bird's old friends occasionally paid him a visit, just to show that he is not entirely forgotten."

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Chess Amateur v2 (1908) p196

A. Barnes - H. Bird New York 1877 (Black to play.)

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1...Rxh3 2.Kxh3 Nf4+ 3.Kh4 Ng2+ 4.Kg5 Nh7+ 5.Kh5 g6 Checkmate.

Both Black Bishops play their part without either of them moving.

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The full game is not here.Possibly from a siml or a casuel game. Had a quick clumsy bash at trying to receate the game up till the first diargram.