The Howard Staunton Society marked World Chess Day with an evening that reflected its mission of celebrating chess, history, culture…
Waterloo was not England's last great victory on French soil. In 1843, Howard Staunton crossed the Channel to fight a…
The Howard Staunton Society marked World Chess Day with an evening that reflected its mission of celebrating chess, history, culture…
The occasion holds particular significance in Soho, where L'Escargot, London's oldest French restaurant, has long been associated with British chess.
Howard Staunton lives on in Banbury. I openly confess that I am no expert on the life of Howard Staunton…
Chess has crossed more frontiers than any army, conquered more hearts than any empire, and united more cultures than perhaps…
Waterloo was not England's last great victory on French soil. In 1843, Howard Staunton crossed the Channel to fight a…
Inspiration often comes from unlikely sources.
Do words carry hidden histories? Beginning with neglected lines from Hamlet and Tamburlaine, Grandmaster Raymond Keene follows an eccentric trail…
Great minds rarely conform. The golden age of chess produced champions whose brilliance was matched only by their colourful eccentricities.
Five centuries after Miyamoto Musashi wrote The Book of Five Rings, its lessons on strategy, discipline and decision-making remain startlingly…
Beginning with Terence Tao's provocative observation, Grandmaster Raymond Keene OBE examines how chess, football, philosophy, and modern competition reveal a…
Howard Staunton devoted years to editing Shakespeare, but was England's greatest chess master equally drawn to the Bard because Shakespeare…
What do Howard Staunton and Leonardo da Vinci have in common? Above all, a remarkable versatility, a capacity to excel…
“Via the squares on a chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which…
For Barry Martin, chess was never merely a game and art was never merely an image. Somewhere between Staunton and…
