33 Quotes by Howard Staunton

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes

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.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

The game of Chess is played by two persons, each having at command a little army of sixteen men, upon a board divided into sixty-four squares.

For touching an adversary’s man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.