Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Aleister Crowley, Howard Staunton, George H. D. Gossip, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Henry Ernest Atkins, Raymond Keene, Nigel Short, Tony Miles, Michael Adams, John Nunn, Francis Joseph Lee, Vera Menchik, David Howell, William Fairhurst, Philip Walsingham Sergeant, Jovanka Houska, Frederick Yates, John Emms, Harriet Hunt, Amos Burn, Daniel J. King, William Ewart Napier, Luke McShane, Henry Dudeney, Julian Hodgson, Neil McDonald, William Lewis, Bernard Cafferty, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Murray Chandler, Frank Parr, Stewart Haslinger, Jon Speelman, Michael Stean, Joseph Gallagher, James Grundy, Gawain Jones, Jonathan Penrose, John Littlewood, Keith Arkell, Joseph Bertin, Thomas Rayner Dawson, Baruch Harold Wood, John Cox, Mary Rudge, Jonathan Kinlay, Charles Masson Fox, Reginald Bonham, Stuart Conquest, Jacques Mieses, Henry Bird, Joseph Henry Blake, David Norwood, Graham Burgess, Angus Dunnington, Michael Basman, John Roycroft, Glenn Flear, George Botterill, Gerald Abrahams, Cathy Warwick, Walter Grimshaw, Matthew Sadler, Bogdan Lali, John Wisker, Chris Ward, Danny Gormally, Nicholas Pert, Richard Palliser, Anne Sunnucks, George Walker, Nigel Davies, Victor Wahltuch, Anya Corke, Charles Henry Stanley, Eugene Ernest Colman, Thomas Rendle, Horatio Caro, H.W.B. Gifford, Simon Williams, Mark Hebden, Susan Lalic, Cyril Vansittart, Adrian Hollis, Edith Michell, Olga Menchik, Peter Wells, James Thompson, Murugan Thiruchelvam, Herbert William Trenchard, Reginald Pryce Michell, Edward Guthlac Sergeant, Edith Charlotte Price, William Watson, Aaron Summerscale, Frederick Perrin, Steve Giddins, Ameet Ghasi. Excerpt: Howard Staunton (1810 - 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as having been the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Saint-Amant. He pro...