Constant Ferdinand Burille
Constant Ferdinand Burille was an American chess master.
He was a Bostonian born in Paris, Burille was a member of a group of Boston chess players and theoreticians who formed a loose chess association they called the Mandarins of the Yellow Buttons.
He took 15th at New York City 1889. He beat F.K. Young in a match in 1888, and lost to Harry Nelson Pillsbury in 1892.
He also played in cable chess matches New York vs. London in 1896 and 1897.
The "Burille variation" is a recognized variation in the Grünfeld defense.
Burille was one of the operators of the Ajeeb, a chess-playing "automaton". Franklin K. Young gave a number of games by Burille in his book The Grand Tactics of Chess.
