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| Jun-22-06 | | lblai: Greatest Tournaments in the History of Chess 1851-1986 (CD) might be considered by those who want the games of the 1851 tournament.
http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?cID=4... |
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| Aug-15-06 | | mack: We'd might as well make this the Staunton Memorial page. The results of yesterday's first round were apparently as follows: Adams - Timman 0.5 - 0.5
Howell - l’Ami 0 - 1
Visser - Levitt 1 - 0
Sokolov - Day 1 - 0
Werle - Speelman 1 - 0
Lanchava - Wells 1 - 0
No PGNs anywhere, though. Given that one of our members is actually running the event and another one is competing, could we perhaps seem some games sometime soon? |
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Sep-03-06
 | | BishopBerkeley: 1851 engraving of the "THE BERKSHIRE AND READING CHESS CLUB SOIREE, IN THE NEW HALL, READING" "This charming small historical engraving shows several games of chess in progress watched by an elegant group of spectators.": http://cgi.ebay.com/CHESS-CLUB-SOIR... (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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Sep-05-06
| | BishopBerkeley: I see that a full digitally-scanned version of Howard Staunton's "The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess" is available for download or for online page-by-page browsing, courtesy of books.google.com: http://books.google.com/books?vid=0... No doubt many other interesting Chess writings can be found here. (To winnow out much more recent writings, simply select "Full view books" below the search text box.) http://books.google.com/
This collection of public-domain texts will likely be growing throughout our lifetimes, so if your favorite public-domain text isn't here yet, be sure to check back from time to time! (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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| Sep-13-06 | | BIDMONFA: Howard Staunton STAUNTON, Howard
http://www.bidmonfa.com/staunton_ho...
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Sep-14-06
| | BishopBerkeley: Well, I'm happy to see that at least one of Shakespeare's plays with commentary by Howard Stauton has made its way onto the Web, Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale": http://books.google.com/books?vid=O... Even so, I think one still cannot find the ASCII text of Staunton's Shakespeare writings on the Web. But I have to think that will not be too far off!
(This is just a part of Google's attempt to scan in just about every significant book published in the English language before 1923 in order to make them available on the Web: http://books.google.com/ More: http://books.google.com/intl/en/goo... ) O brave new world, that hath such techology in it!
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke (the third of "Clarke's Three Laws" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke... ) (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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| Nov-12-06 | | GufeldStudent: I think a Morphy Stuanton match might have been closer than the Anderssen match (though Anderssen was better than Staunton at that time) because of Stuanton's expertise in closed positions where Morphy was relatively weakest. I really wish that match had happened (along with a Morphy Steinitzz match) |
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| Jan-27-07 | | fred lennox: Staunton is the first true virtuoso at trading queens. This positional strategy gets little attention though it is common and dramatic. Basically, as more pieces get exchanged the less powerful the queen. Also, the more powerful the rooks. The knights become less powerful and work better with the queen as bishops work better with rooks. While, of course, the queen remains the most powerful, its decline in strength is real. It can often be set up for where a queen exchanged can be to one advantage. Staunton's games are the first to really show what depth and subtlety there can be to setting up a position to where trading queens is to his advantage. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | James Demery: I agree GS. Staunton, Morphy, and Fischer. These tempermental chess players keep letting us down. |
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| Jun-02-07 | | Knight13: <--- Celebrating his 7000th post right here. :-) |
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| Aug-03-07 | | elLocoEvans: Not sure if it was posted before, but "The Chess Tournament. A collection of the games played at this assemblage, illustrated by copious diagrams, and notes. critical and explanatory." By H. Staunton, Esq. is already available for download at gbooks!
http://www.google.com.mx/books?id=_... |
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| Sep-15-07 | | Amulet: Is the `English Chess Opening' the idea of this player? |
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| Sep-20-07 | | FHBradley: <Amulet:> Yes, The English Opening is so-called, because Staunton played it on occasion. His original idea, I believe, was to play the Sicilian with reversed colours. Many of Staunton's ideas were reinvented in the 1920s by Réti (I don't know if Réti knew about Staunton). The moves 1. c4, 2. Nc3, 3. g3, 4. Bg2, 5. e3 plus Nge2 could be called the Staunton system, as in Staunton vs Horwitz, 1851, a more modern example of this strategy would be Botvinnik vs Simagin, 1952, or
Taimanov vs Simagin, 1956. The Staunton system can also be played with black pieces, as in the following game by Bobby Fischer: Smyslov vs Fischer, 1970. |
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| Mar-11-08 | | candide1500: The notion that Staunton was a "master" of closed position is one that i have always found odd. Other than his win over Horwitz (annotated by Keene) I really don't see any other games which substantiate this. This isn't meant to bash mr. staunton...but i'm genuinely curious, has this idea just been repeated so often that people simply accept if at face value?? |
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Mar-11-08
 | | keypusher: <candide1500> Here is one I like: Staunton vs Bristol, 1841
The games of his match with St. Amant in 1843 are also worth a look. I like this one: Staunton vs Saint Amant, 1843
See this game and <sneaky pete>'s comment: Staunton vs Owen / Barnes, 1858 You should also bear in mind that the closed game hardly existed before Staunton, so he was helping create things we take for granted now -- Fischer credited him with the positional use of the fianchetto, although I am not sure Fischer was right. I suspect the Horwitz game was a real revelation to chessplayers in 1851 (though Horwitz really did play badly). You might also want to pose your question on the Ray Keene page. |
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| Mar-11-08 | | candide1500: wow thanks for the timely reply <keypusher> Ur right, considering the time the Bristol game is another fine example. However, its worth noting that his opposition played fairly poorly (again not a knock on staunton...especially considering most of my own "knowledge" of closed positions usually comes from whatever GM's book i just finished reading) Its just seems to me that in an era of ultra-romantics staunton often won just by being more patient. But as you say GM keene is probably most qualified to answer such questions. |
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| Mar-12-08 | | brankat: Re: Howard Staunton, Here are some contemporary quotes, which, I think, shed additional light on the man: "The deceased often acted, not only with signal lack of generosity, but also with gross unfairness towards those whom he disliked, or from whom he had suffered defeat, or whom he imagined likely to stand between him and the sun. His attacks upon Anderssen, Williams, Harrwitz, Lowenthal and Steinitz must ever be considered as a sad misuse of his vigorous intellect, especially as they were often conducted in a manner not at all consistent with a truthful spirit; nor were his innuendos concerning Morphy otherwise than an utterly unworthy means of getting out of an engagement, which he could have either declined with a good grace at first, or afterwards have honorably asked to be released from. Nevertheless, all said and done, Staunton was, as we have often heard a distinguished enemy of his say, emphatically a MAN. There was nothing weak about him, and he had a backbone that never curved with fear of any one. Of him may be averred, what was said of the renowned Duke of Bedford by Louis the Eleventh, when the courtiers of the latter were venting their deprecatory scoffs over the tomb of the great Englishman, "There lies one, before whom, if he were still alive, the boldest amongst us would tremble." – William Norwood Potter
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| Mar-12-08 | | brankat: "His only excuse, I think, lay in his great irritability of temper, undoubtedly the result of physical sufferings. The fact is that for many years he had been subject to a disease of the heart; this does not appear to be universally known, but to me it seems the clue to some of his peculiarities and several hitherto unexplained incidents." – Baron Tassilo von Heyderbrand und der Lasa (on Staunton) |
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| Mar-12-08 | | brankat: "As an author, Staunton's influence upon Chess play in this country has been immense, and it is no exaggeration to say that his literary labors are the basis upon which English Chess Society, as at present constituted, stands. Had it not been for the educating influence of his many and important Chess works, the practice of the game would have been far from attaining to the high order of excellence by which it is now characterized amongst English Chess players as a body. On the contrary, the prevailing type of play here would, in all probability, be miserably unscientific and barbarous." – William Norwood Potter
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| Mar-12-08 | | brankat: "From his performance in the Birmingham tournament where, after defeating a weak player named Hughes in the first round, Staunton succumbed to Lowenthal in the second, we can justly assume that in 1858 he was so far below his best form that an encounter with Morphy would have been a massacre." – David Levy
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| Mar-12-08 | | brankat: H.Staunton on the proposed match against P.Morphy:
"The experience, however, of some weeks, during which I have labored unceasingly, to the serious injury of my health, shows that not only is it impracticable for me to save time (to play a match), but that by no means short of giving up a great work on which I am engaged, subjecting the publishers to the loss of thousands, and myself to an action for breach of contract, could I obtain time even for the match itself. Such a sacrifice is, of course, out of all question." – Howard Staunton (on the proposed match with Morphy) |
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| Mar-12-08 | | brankat: And, finally, Bobby Fischer:
"Staunton was the most profound opening analyst of all time. He was more theorist than player, but nonetheless he was the strongest player of his day. Playing over his games, I discover that they are completely modern; where Morphy and Steinitz rejected the fianchetto, Staunton embraced it. In addition, he understood all of the positional concepts which modern players hold so dear, and thus - with Steinitz - must be considered the first modern player." – Bobby Fischer
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| Apr-12-08 | | stupidiot21: staunton started chess very late didn't he? |
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| Apr-16-08 | | Karpova: Staunton and Shakespeare:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/.... Modern reference books don't seem to mention him too often. |
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| Apr-25-08 | | Cibator: I've often wondered whether the Staunton Gambit (1.d4 f5 2.e4) was actually invented or played by Howard S. It's so at odds with what one thinks of as his highly conservative style. |
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