Howard Staunton
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title:
Howard Staunton
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Howard Staunton was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shape – the Staunton pattern promulgated by Nathaniel Cooke – that is still the style required for competitions. He was the principal organiser of the first international chess tournament in 1851, which made England the
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19th-century English chess master and Shakespearean scholar
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2002-11-24T23:09:29Z
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2024-09-10T19:49:16Z
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