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The Barnes Opening (sometimes called Gedult's Opening) is a chess opening where White opens with: . 1. f3. The opening is named after Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825–1874), an English player who had an impressive [1] eight wins over Paul Morphy, including one game where Barnes answered 1.e4 with 1...f6, known as the Barnes Defence.
A variation of the Ruy Lopez opening called the Barnes Defence was named after him: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 (this is also sometimes known as the Smyslov Defence). A much more dubious variation named for him is Barnes Defence, 1.e4 f6 which he played against Anderssen and Morphy, beating the latter. [1] Barnes Opening, 1.f3, also bears his ...
Roosevelt and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks were unanimously nominated, but unlike candidates today, they did not give convention speeches, instead having individuals give nominating speeches for them. Roosevelt's nomination speech was made by former New York Governor Frank S. Black and was seconded by Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge.
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Thomas Barnes (MP) (1812–1897), MP for Bolton; Sir Thomas Barnes (solicitor) (1888–1964), English government lawyer; Thomas Barnes (Unitarian) (1747–1810), English Unitarian minister and educational reformer; Thomas G. Barnes (1911–2001), American physicist and creationist; Thomas H. Barnes (1831–1913), American politician and ...
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Thomas Barnes was born in 1812. [1] He was one of three sons of James Rothwell Barnes who, along with Thomas Bonsor Crompton , was a significant figure in the development of Farnworth. Barnes senior established the first steam-powered weaving mill in Farnworth and later, in 1832, brought cotton spinning to the town.