Eveline Allen Burgess (September 19, 1856 – July 10, 1936) was the American women's chess champion from 1907 to 1920.

Living there until she was ten years of age they moved to St. Louis, where she attended the Franklin and High schools, graduating from the latter in 1875 as valedictorian of her class.

[4] Burgess did not remember when she began playing chess, having been, taught by her father, Dr. James X. Allen, an Englishman, from Lancashire, who was very fond of the game.

While she felt that she did not "even remember the moves," she asked Mr. Burgess to bring home a set of chessmen from the book store, and the next day played seventeen games with her brother, losing only the first.

It was the courtesy of the club to elect Burgess and Mrs. Hewit alternately to the office of vice-president, they being the only active women members.

She planned a brilliant game and never missed the Monday evening meetings of the West End Chess Club, at the Cabanne Branch Library.

Another and larger gold pin was presented her, with a shield, enameled in colors on a chess board surmounted by a crown.

[4] She taught school and music for one year in Montgomery County, and on July 4, 1876, married Samuel Rostron Burgess (1851–1918), who was born in St. Louis and lived here all his life.