| British Chess Writers: Harold James Ruthven Murray, Howard Staunton, George H. D. Gossip, Raymond Keene, Leonard Barden, Charles Ranken, Nige Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Books, LLC (Editor), Books, LLC (Created by) |
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ISBN: 1155617517 ISBN-13: 9781155617510 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $20.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Harold James Ruthven Murray, Howard Staunton, George H. D. Gossip, Raymond Keene, Leonard Barden, Charles Ranken, Nigel Short, Stuart Milner-Barry, David Levy, Tony Miles, Michael Adams, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, John Nunn, Philip Walsingham Sergeant, V. R. Parton, Jovanka Houska, John Emms, Amos Burn, David Pritchard, Daniel J. King, Julian Hodgson, Neil McDonald, William Lewis, Bernard Cafferty, Edward Freeborough, Jonathan Rowson, Jon Speelman, Michael Stean, Joseph Gallagher, James Plaskett, James Mason, Gawain Jones, G. H. Diggle, Harry Golombek, Jacob Aagaard, Joseph Bertin, Thomas Rayner Dawson, Tim Harding, Baruch Harold Wood, John Cox, Edward Winter, Charles Masson Fox, Jacques Mieses, Henry Bird, Paul Motwani, Craig Pritchett, William Hartston, David Norwood, Graham Burgess, Angus Dunnington, David Vincent Hooper, Colin McNab, David S. Goodman, Michael Basman, John Roycroft, Glenn Flear, George Botterill, Simon Webb, Aaron Alexandre, William Winter, Gerald Abrahams, Cathy Warwick, Matthew Sadler, John Wisker, Bernhard Horwitz, Chris Ward, Danny Gormally, Richard Palliser, Jacob Sarratt, Charles Bent, Anne Sunnucks, George Walker, Nigel Davies, Ken Whyld, John Saunders, John Herbert White, Stewart Reuben, Simon Williams, Heinrich Fraenkel, Peter Wells, Richard Griffith, Aaron Summerscale, Steve Giddins. Excerpt: Howard Staunton (1810 - 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as having been the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shape-the Staunton pattern-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 world's leading chess... |
