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    Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament was an annual chess tournament held between 2003 and 2009 in honour of the English chess player Howard Staunton (1810–1874)...
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    Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely...
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    link between chess rating and IQ. In 2005, Levitt won the Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament, beating Jon Speelman in the tiebreaks. He won Morris Sobkowski's...
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    Polgár and others. In more recent times, he won the fifth Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament in August 2007, achieving a score of 8½/11 (six wins, five...
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    Cramling. Her task was much more difficult at the fifth Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament, held at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, where she faced some of...
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    September 2009 Keene, Becoming a Grandmaster, pp. 73–76. Howard Staunton memorial tournament [3] New in Chess, 2008, number 8, Nic's Café, p. 6. The Spectator's...
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    Dutch Championship at Hilversum and finished third at the Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament, after Michael Adams and Loek van Wely, but ahead of Jan...
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    formal competition, he has been a regular participant in the Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament in London (which occasionally doubles as an informal England...
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    finished second behind former World Champion José Raúl Capablanca in a tournament in Paris in 1938, he won the French Championship in 1948. He was Paris...
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    he was deterred by the travel costs. However the tournament's principal organizer, Howard Staunton, offered to pay Anderssen's travel expenses out of...
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    18 Howard Staunton tournament, 2003 Schonberg, H.C. (1975). "The Age of Staunton". Grandmasters of Chess. Fontana. pp. 37–46. ISBN 0006336183. Howard Staunton...
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    den Doel. In 2006 he won the Sigeman Tournament in Malmö Sweden and was second in the Howard Staunton Memorial in London. Timman is one of the chief...
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    British players were considered to be grandmasters in their day, such as Howard Staunton and Joseph Blackburne). When FIDE first awarded the grandmaster title...
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    strong post-war international tournament, at Groningen, Netherlands, in August 1946. This event, the Howard Staunton Memorial, was won by Botvinnik with...
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    1964), pp. 56–61). An article in which Fischer named Paul Morphy, Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz, Siegbert Tarrasch, Mikhail Chigorin, Alexander Alekhine...
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    was explicitly described as being for the World Championship, but Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy had been unofficially described as "World Chess Champion"...
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  • replied, "Neither do I." Perfect scores were achieved in matches by: Howard Staunton over Daniel Harrwitz in 1846 (7/7) Wilhelm Steinitz over Joseph Henry...
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  • October attacks on Israel. Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, asks Henry Staunton to step down as chair of Post Office Limited after 13 months in the role...
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  • sister, Doreen Beavis, and witnesses Colin and Christine Cooper (Imelda Staunton), may hold the key to the case. Toby Jones also appears. 9 4 "Blood Will...
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    Australian Under-20 national championships, she won the Bob Staunton Award for the tournament MVP. She was described as a basketball prodigy by the time...
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    the club possessed a framed list of past members which also included Howard Staunton and Herr Lowenthal from the 1850s. In the earliest document still in...
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    touring theater troupes operate from the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton. The Barter Theatre in Abingdon, designated the State Theatre of Virginia...
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  • October 2009. "V4 Rugby Tournament A Huge Success". Durham School. Retrieved 26 October 2010. The inaugural Veterrimi IV Rugby Tournament, hosted by Durham...
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  • Seven former pupils took part in the Battle of Britain. In 1925, the War Memorial Library was built to the designs of Sir Aston Webb, with the chimney piece...
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    as Black does in the same positions with his extra tempo and all." Howard Staunton, generally considered to have been the strongest player in the world...
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    (1944). The Centenary History of Rossall School, William Furness. p. 5. Staunton, Howard (1865). The Great Schools of England. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston...
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    Barry Goldwater (category Staunton Military Academy alumni)
    did poorly as a freshman in high school, Goldwater's parents sent him to Staunton Military Academy in Virginia where he played varsity football, basketball...
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  • McCaffrey. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Anne was educated at Stuart Hall, Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum...
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    Five Old Shirburnians have been awarded the Victoria Cross, to whom a memorial plaque was commissioned, the unveiling of which took place in the School...
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    13-year-old Bobby Fischer beats grandmaster Donald Byrne, in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City. October 19 – The Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration...
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