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Chess as metaphor for Life
As a chess grandmaster, author of over 200 books on chess and mind sports, and someone who has dedicated his…
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Howard Staunton Society Celebrates World Chess Day with Grandmaster Ray Keene OBE
The Howard Staunton Society marked World Chess Day with an evening that reflected its mission of celebrating chess, history, culture…
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World Chess Day Comes to Soho with a Grandmaster Celebration at L'Escargot
The occasion holds particular significance in Soho, where L'Escargot, London's oldest French restaurant, has long been associated with British chess.
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The Staunton Suite
Howard Staunton lives on in Banbury. I openly confess that I am no expert on the life of Howard Staunton…
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An Evening with Carl Portman MBE: Chess in Prisons And Why It Matters
The Howard Staunton Society is delighted to invite members and friends to an evening of talk and dinner with Carl…
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Gens Una Sumus
Chess has crossed more frontiers than any army, conquered more hearts than any empire, and united more cultures than perhaps…
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The Second Battle of Waterloo
Waterloo was not England's last great victory on French soil. In 1843, Howard Staunton crossed the Channel to fight a…
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How a mediaeval thinker out of the box: Stupor Mundi, helped me to solve a Chinese puzzle
Inspiration often comes from unlikely sources.
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Does the word chess originate with Julius Caesar’s name?
Do words carry hidden histories? Beginning with neglected lines from Hamlet and Tamburlaine, Grandmaster Raymond Keene follows an eccentric trail…
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The Samurai Mind
Five centuries after Miyamoto Musashi wrote The Book of Five Rings, its lessons on strategy, discipline and decision-making remain startlingly…
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Why The Future Belongs to Players
Beginning with Terence Tao's provocative observation, Grandmaster Raymond Keene OBE examines how chess, football, philosophy, and modern competition reveal a…
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Staunton, Shakespeare and Chess
Howard Staunton devoted years to editing Shakespeare, but was England's greatest chess master equally drawn to the Bard because Shakespeare…
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Did Leonardo da Vinci play chess?
What do Howard Staunton and Leonardo da Vinci have in common? Above all, a remarkable versatility, a capacity to excel…
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Empires of the Mind
“Via the squares on a chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which…
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Barry Martin - In Memoriam
For Barry Martin, chess was never merely a game and art was never merely an image. Somewhere between Staunton and…
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An Evening with Carl Portman MBE: Chess in Prisons And Why It Matters
The Howard Staunton Society is delighted to invite members and friends to an evening of talk and dinner with Carl…
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Chess Treasures of Raymond Keene OBE
As a Chess Collector, my visit to the home of Raymond Keene was an eyeopener. I was not expecting the…
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The Staunton Suite
Howard Staunton lives on in Banbury. I openly confess that I am no expert on the life of Howard Staunton…