Howard Staunton, English chess player (born 1810)

Howard Staunton

English chess master and Shakespearean scholar (1810–1874)

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…