Top 40 Howard Staunton Quotes
#1. 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
#2. For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
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#3. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes
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#7. 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.
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#9. If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.
Minor White
#10. If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. He who builds others up is greater than he who tears others down.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#12. 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
#14. 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.
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#15. When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
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#19. 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
#20. I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
A.R. Ammons
#21. I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can't go to the movies anymore.
Tyson Fury
#22. The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.
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#23. The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
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#24. The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
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#25. 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
#26. Was. "Uh, hi, Walter. This is my daughter, Hayley, and this is her mom, Maggie McPherson." "Hi," Hayley said shyly. Maggie nodded and looked uncomfortable. Walter made the mistake of thrusting his hand out to Maggie. If she could have
Michael Connelly
#27. The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
Howard Staunton
#29. Don't let the idiots that like to bring you down, succeed in discouraging you. I let it get to me a while ago, and let me tell you, it feels SO good to come up under it!
Christina Grimmie
#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game
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#34. 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
#35. Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life.
Hill Harper
#36. Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.
David Naughton
#37. 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
#38. EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION
Deepak Chopra
#39. 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
#40. If one squinted into Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic.
Maggie Stiefvater
