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Howard Staunton, the Glossary

Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874) 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.^[1]

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Aaron Alexandre

Aaron (Albert) Alexandre (אהרון אלכסנדר, around 1765/68 in Hohenfeld, Franconia – 16 November 1850 in London, England) was a German–French–English chess player and writer. Howard Staunton and Aaron Alexandre are British chess writers.

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Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Adolf Anderssen

Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Howard Staunton and Adolf Anderssen are 19th-century chess players.

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Adolf Zytogorski

Adolf Żytogórski (or Adolph Zytogorski,, later known as John Hanstein) (– 28 February 1882) was a Polish-British chess master and translator. Howard Staunton and Adolf Zytogorski are 19th-century chess players.

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Alexander McDonnell (chess player)

Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835), sometimes spelled MacDonnell, was an Irish chess master, who contested a series of six matches with the world's leading chess player Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais in 1834. Howard Staunton and Alexander McDonnell (chess player) are 19th-century chess players and Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery.

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Alexandre Deschapelles

Alexandre Deschapelles (March 7, 1780 in Ville-d'Avray near VersaillesOctober 27, 1847 in Paris) was a French chess player who, between the death of François-André Danican Philidor and the rise of Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, was probably the strongest player in the world.

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Anthony Saidy

Anthony Saidy (born May 16, 1937) is an International Master of chess, a retired physician and author.

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Augustus Mongredien

Augustus Mongredien (1807–1888) was a corn merchant, also known as a political economist and writer. Howard Staunton and Augustus Mongredien are 19th-century chess players.

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Bell's Life in London

Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle was an English weekly sporting paper published as a pink broadsheet between 1822 and 1886.

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Bernhard Horwitz

Bernhard Horwitz (1807 in Neustrelitz – 1885 in London) was a German and British chess master, chess writer and chess composer. Howard Staunton and Bernhard Horwitz are 19th-century chess players, British chess writers and chess theoreticians.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

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British Chess Magazine

British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess journal in continuous publication.

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Carl Jaenisch

Carl Ferdinand von Jaenisch (Karl Andreyevich Yanish; April 11, 1813 – March 7, 1872) was a Finnish and Russian chess player and theorist. Howard Staunton and Carl Jaenisch are 19th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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Charles Ranken

Charles Edward Ranken (5 January 1828 – 12 April 1905) was a Church of England clergyman and a minor British chess master. Howard Staunton and Charles Ranken are 19th-century chess players, British chess writers, chess theoreticians and English non-fiction writers.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chess endgame

The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame.

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Chess opening

The opening is the initial stage of a chess game.

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Chess piece

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess.

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Chess Player's Chronicle

The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant in 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess.

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Chess theory

The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame.

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Chess title

A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank.

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ChessCafe.com

ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis.

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Chessmetrics

Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas.

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Coffeehouse

A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino.

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Combination (chess)

In chess, a combination is a sequence of moves, often initiated by a sacrifice, which leaves the opponent few options and results in tangible gain.

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Compendium

A compendium (compendia or compendiums) is a comprehensive collection of information and analysis pertaining to a body of knowledge.

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Complete Works of Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.

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Corporal punishment

A corporal punishment or a physical punishment is a punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person.

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Correspondence chess

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system.

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Daniel Harrwitz

Daniel Harrwitz (22 February 1821 – 2 January 1884) was a German chess master. Howard Staunton and Daniel Harrwitz are 19th-century chess players.

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Database

In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data.

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David Vincent Hooper

David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915 – 3 May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer. Howard Staunton and David Vincent Hooper are British chess writers, English chess players and English non-fiction writers.

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Dutch Defence

The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the middlegame on White's; however, it also weakens Black's kingside to an extent (especially the e8–h5 diagonal).

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Early texts of Shakespeare's works

The earliest texts of William Shakespeare's works were published during the 16th and 17th centuries in quarto or folio format.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Edmund Kean

Edmund Kean (4 November 178715 May 1833) was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris.

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Edward Winter (chess historian)

Edward Winter (born 1955) is an English chess journalist, archivist, historian, collector and author. Howard Staunton and Edward Winter (chess historian) are British chess writers.

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Electrical telegraph

Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century.

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Elijah Williams (chess player)

Elijah Williams (7 October 1809 – 8 September 1854) was a British chess player of the mid-19th century. Howard Staunton and Elijah Williams (chess player) are 19th-century chess players.

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Endgame tablebase

In chess, the endgame tablebase, or simply tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions.

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English Chess Federation

The English Chess Federation (ECF) is the governing chess organisation in England.

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English Opening

The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, one of the four most successful of White's twenty possible first moves.

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Evans Gambit

The Evans Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Evans Gambit is an attacking line of the Giuoco Piano.

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Exchange (chess)

In chess, an exchange or trade of chess pieces is a series of closely related moves, typically sequential, in which the two players each other's pieces.

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Fagging

Fagging was a traditional practice in British public schools and also at many other boarding schools, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the eldest boys.

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Fianchetto

In chess, the fianchetto (or; "little flank") is a pattern of wherein a bishop is developed to the second of the adjacent b- or g-, the having been moved one or two squares forward.

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FIDE

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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FIDE titles

FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance.

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First Folio

Mr.

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François-André Danican Philidor

François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player. Howard Staunton and François-André Danican Philidor are chess theoreticians.

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Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld (January 27, 1910 – May 29, 1964) was an American writer on chess and many other subjects.

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Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle

Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (28 May 1748 – 4 September 1825) was a British peer, statesman, diplomat, and author.

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G. H. Diggle

Geoffrey Harber Diggle (6 December 1902 – 13 February 1993)Edward Winter,, quoting Winter, CHESS magazine, June 1993, p. 46. Howard Staunton and G. H. Diggle are British chess writers and English non-fiction writers.

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Gambit

A gambit (from Italian gambetto, the act of tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices with the aim of achieving a subsequent advantage.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer.

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George Walker (chess player)

George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor (London, 1832), The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess (London, 1832), A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor (London, 1835), Chess Made Easy (London, 1836), and Chess Studies (London, 1844). Howard Staunton and George Walker (chess player) are 19th-century chess players, British chess writers, chess theoreticians and English chess players.

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Gleaning

Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.

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Glossary of chess

This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.

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Gosport

Gosport is a town and non-metropolitan borough, on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England.

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Grandmaster (chess)

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

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Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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H. J. R. Murray

Harold James Ruthven Murray (24 June 1868 – 16 May 1955) was a British educationalist, inspector of schools, and prominent chess historian. Howard Staunton and h. J. R. Murray are British chess writers.

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Handbuch des Schachspiels

Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess, often simply called the Handbuch) is a chess book, first published in 1843 by Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa.

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Handicap (chess)

Handicaps (or "odds") in chess are handicapping variants which enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one.

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Henry Thomas Buckle

Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization, and a strong amateur chess player. Howard Staunton and Henry Thomas Buckle are 19th-century chess players.

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Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament

The Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament was an annual chess tournament held between 2003 and 2009 in honour of the English chess player Howard Staunton (1810–1874).

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Hugh Alexander Kennedy

Hugh Alexander Kennedy (22 August 1809 – 22 October 1878) was an English chess master and writer. Howard Staunton and Hugh Alexander Kennedy are 19th-century chess players, British chess writers and English chess players.

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Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is a, historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London.

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Hypermodernism

Hypermodernism may refer to.

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Israel Albert Horowitz

Israel Albert Horowitz (often known as I. A. Horowitz or Al Horowitz) (November 15, 1907 – January 18, 1973) was an American International Master of chess.

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Jaques of London

Jaques of London, formerly known as John Jaques of London and Jaques and Son of London is a long-established family company that manufactures sports and game equipment.

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József Szén

József Szén (9 July 1805, Pest, Hungary – 13 January 1857) was a chess master from the Austrian Empire. Howard Staunton and József Szén are 19th-century chess players.

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Johann Löwenthal

Johann Jacob Löwenthal (Löwenthal János Jakab; 15 July 1810 – 24 July 1876) was a professional chess master. Howard Staunton and Johann Löwenthal are 19th-century chess players.

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John Cochrane (chess player)

John Cochrane (4 February 1798 – 2 March 1878) was a Scottish chess master and lawyer. Howard Staunton and John Cochrane (chess player) are 19th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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John Gilbert (painter)

Sir John Gilbert (21 July 1817 – 5 October 1897) was an English artist, illustrator and engraver.

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John Nunn

John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. Howard Staunton and John Nunn are British chess writers and English chess players.

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Ken Whyld

Kenneth Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of The Oxford Companion to Chess, a single-volume chess reference work in English. Howard Staunton and Ken Whyld are British chess writers and English chess players.

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Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of North Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London, England. Howard Staunton and Kensal Green Cemetery are Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery.

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Keswick, Cumbria

Keswick is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England.

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Knight (chess)

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England.

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Legitimacy (family law)

Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce.

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List of chess games

This is a list of notable chess games sorted chronologically.

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London 1851 chess tournament

London 1851 was the first international chess tournament.

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Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais

Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795 – December 1840) was a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century. Howard Staunton and Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais are 19th-century chess players and Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery.

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Ludwig Bledow

Dr Ludwig Erdmann Bledow (27 July 1795, Berlin – 6 August 1846, Berlin) was a German chess master and chess organizer (co-founder of the Berlin Pleiades). Howard Staunton and Ludwig Bledow are 19th-century chess players.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Mark Taimanov

Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. Howard Staunton and Mark Taimanov are chess theoreticians.

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Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (– May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. Howard Staunton and Mikhail Botvinnik are chess theoreticians.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599.

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My Great Predecessors

My Great Predecessors is a series of chess books written by former World Champion Garry Kasparov et al.

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Nathaniel Cooke

Nathaniel Cooke was the English designer of a set of chess figures called the Staunton chess set which is now the standard set.

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New In Chess

New In Chess (NIC) is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Norman Lessing

Norman Lessing (June 24, 1911 – October 22, 2001) was an American television screenwriter and producer, playwright, chess master, and chess writer.

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Obituary

An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person.

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Open letter

An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed intentionally.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Palpitations

Palpitations are perceived abnormalities of the heartbeat characterized by awareness of cardiac muscle contractions in the chest, which is further characterized by the hard, fast and/or irregular beatings of the heart.

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Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy are 19th-century chess players.

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Paul Rudolf von Bilguer

Paul Rudolf (or Rudolph) von Bilguer (21 September 1815 – 16 September 1840) was a German chess master and chess theoretician from Ludwigslust in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Howard Staunton and Paul Rudolf von Bilguer are 19th-century chess players.

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Philip Walsingham Sergeant

Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27 January 1872, Notting Hill, LondonBirths, Marriages and Deaths – 20 October 1952) was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects. Howard Staunton and Philip Walsingham Sergeant are British chess writers, chess theoreticians, English chess players, English non-fiction writers and People from Notting Hill.

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Photolithography

Photolithography (also known as optical lithography) is a process used in the manufacturing of integrated circuits.

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Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant

Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (12 September 1800, Monflanquin – 29 October 1872) was a leading French chess master and an editor of the chess periodical Le Palamède. Howard Staunton and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant are 19th-century chess players.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Ponziani Opening

The Ponziani Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: It is one of the oldest chess openings, having been discussed in literature by 1497.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.

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Raymond Keene

Raymond Dennis Keene (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author. Howard Staunton and Raymond Keene are British chess writers and English chess players.

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Reuben Fine

Reuben C. Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was an American chess player, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology. Howard Staunton and Reuben Fine are chess theoreticians.

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Robert Fischer

Robert Fischer may refer to.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower (also known as Xavier or Ksawery Tartakower, less often Tartacover or Tartakover; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. Howard Staunton and Savielly Tartakower are chess theoreticians.

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Shylock

Shylock is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice (1600).

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Sicilian Defence

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4.

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Simpson's-in-the-Strand

Simpson's-in-the-Strand is one of London's oldest traditional English restaurants.

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Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament.

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Staunton chess set

The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body.

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Staunton Gambit

The Staunton Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves: White sacrifices a pawn for quick, with the idea of launching an attack against Black's, which has been somewhat weakened by 1...f5.

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Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa

Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as Baron von der Lasa; 17 October 1818 – 27 July 1899) was a German chess master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades). Howard Staunton and Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa are 19th-century chess players.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Staunton

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