Howard Staunton Quotes

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• After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game
• 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.
• After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes
• The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
• 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…
• The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
• 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…
• When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
• 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…
• The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
• The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
• 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…
• 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…

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