Quotes by Howard Staunton - Page 1

The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Queens
Force
Most Powerful
Powerful
Forces
Queen
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When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Games
Giving
Party
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When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Checkmate
Drawn
Neither
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After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Chess
Games
White
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The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Exceeding
Limit
Penalty
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The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Hands
Squares
White
Corner
Placed
Square
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The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Backwards
Bishops
Boards
Moving
Bishop
Board
Extent
Forwards
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After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Always Trying
Chess Game
Games
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The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Queens
Bishops
Knights
Pieces
Bishop
Queen
Minor
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For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Kings
Men
Captured
Moving
Touching
Adversary
Offender
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The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Chess
Games
Intellectual
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To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Games
Play
Skills
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The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Queens
Average
Equal
Games
Two
Valuable
Reckoned
Towards
Hardly
Queen
Pawn
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A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Pieces
Three
Two
Fraction
Minor
Pawn
Piece
Value
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When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Captured
Enemy
Play
Taken
Pawn
Piece
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For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Kings
Men
Moved
Moving
Adversary
Option
Legally
Require
Square
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It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Determine
Judgment
Law
Umpires
According
Questions
Apply
Submitted
Umpire
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When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Danger
Valuable
Attack
Checked
Piece
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A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Kings
Advantage
Player
Squares
Directly
Ending
Square
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If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Committed
Errors
Games
Moving
Correction
Discovered
Error
Penalty
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Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Battle
Eight
Diagram
Observe
Pawn
Ranks
Shown
Superior
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If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Anger
Abandon
Decision
Games
Offensive
Player
Quitting
Resigning
Manner
Momentarily
Otherwise
Refuses
Table
Umpire
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In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Kings
Demand
Moved
Moving
Opposing
Player
Touched
Completed
Shall
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Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Kings
Queens
Men
Cautious
Doe
Attacks
Check
Discovered
Queen
Piece
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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Confused
Delicate
Discouraged
Study
Variety
Distinctions
Openings
Otherwise
Outset
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Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Color
Distinction
Eight
Officers
Party
Player
Purpose
Different Color
Observed
Minor
One Party
Pawn
Superior
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.
Howard Staunton / Chess Master
Men
Another Man
Left
Moving
Taken
Act
Captures
Time Man Right
Except
File
Forward
Occupied
Pawn
Square
Step
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