http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/ We focus on the British Chess Scene Past & Present! Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:16:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/#comment-58455 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:16:02 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6050#comment-58455 […] Howard Staunton’s commentary says it all : ‘Each…exhibits the same want of depth and inventive powers in his combinations, and the same tiresome prolixity in manoeuvring his men. It need hardly be said that the games, from first to last, are remarkable only for their unvarying and unexampled dullness” […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/#comment-55955 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:19:45 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6050#comment-55955 […] His best tournament win was at Dortmund 1980 (category 8), He studied the games and teaching of Staunton and Nimzowitsch and revealed with unusual insight the strategy of the former and the stratagems of […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/#comment-22703 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:23:16 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6050#comment-22703 […] he showed his gambit to Lewis and McDonnell, and in 1838 when he played a long series of games with Staunton at the Westminster Chess Club. In Jan. 1840 he was pensioned off on account of ill-health. He went […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/#comment-13275 Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:12:08 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6050#comment-13275 […] His best tournament win was at Dortmund 1980 (category 8), He studied the games and teaching of Staunton and Nimzowitsch and revealed with unusual insight the strategy of the former and the stratagems of […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/#comment-10456 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:51:57 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6050#comment-10456 […] official British grandmaster (the title dates officially only from 1949, so excluding the likes of Staunton, Blackburne and Burn) and took the £5000 Slater prize for the first British GM to add to the […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/#comment-7458 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:42:55 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6050#comment-7458 […] of the greatest British players in his command and understanding of the game and he ranks alongside Staunton, Blackburne, Atkins and CHO’D Alexander as a chess figure of world […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/#comment-2205 Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:47:00 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6050#comment-2205 Staunton was not the Father of Modern Chess! Heavens above. Steinitz can stand this yoke. Nimzo? Bronstein?? Tarrasch maybe, of course, but Staunton who wrote letters to himself (ref Diggle), dodged Morphy, pushed or captured when pawns met in opening analysis (ref Crouch), lied about his ancestry, deserted the game latterly, which he was entitled to do … but Father? That is asking too much to my tired old eyes.

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/22/remembering-howard-staunton-01-iv-1810-22-vi-1874/#comment-2125 Wed, 03 Jun 2020 19:50:45 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=6050#comment-2125 The father of modern chess.

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