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 as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shape – the Staunton pattern promulgated by Nathaniel Cooke – that is still the style required for competitions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Staunton has received more than 304,021 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Howard Staunton is the 40th most popular chess player (up from 46th in 2019), the 1,475th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,581st in 2019) and the most popular British Chess Player.

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  • 300k

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  • 56.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Howard Staunton ranks 40 out of 461. Before him are Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Carl Schlechter, Gioachino Greco, Lyudmila Rudenko, Legall de Kermeur, and Efim Bogoljubov. After him are László Szabó, Svetozar Gligorić, Yuri Averbakh, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Alessandro Salvio, and Frank Marshall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Howard Staunton ranks 30. Before him are Ferenc Erkel, Constant Troyon, Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, and Hans Christian Lumbye. After him are Princess Pauline of Württemberg, Ole Bull, Jules Perrot, Wilhelm Marstrand, Juan Bautista Alberdi, and Karel Hynek Mácha. Among people deceased in 1874, Howard Staunton ranks 21. Before him are Moritz von Jacobi, Constantin von Tischendorf, Cochise, Hans Christian Lumbye, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, and Peter Cornelius. After him are Ilija Garašanin, Countess of Ségur, Peter Andreas Hansen, Otto Hesse, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, and Niccolò Tommaseo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Howard Staunton ranks 1,475 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Young (1683), John Graunt (1620), Roland Joffé (1945), Janick Gers (1957), Ealhswith (852), and Emilia Clarke (1986). After him are Billy Connolly (1942), John Eliot Gardiner (1943), Bertram Ramsay (1883), Olivia Colman (1974), John Lindley (1799), and Iain Glen (1961).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Howard Staunton ranks 1. After him are Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), Alexander McDonnell (1798), Horatio Caro (1862), Henry Bird (1830), Amos Burn (1848), Jonathan Penrose (1933), John Owen (1827), John Nunn (1955), Nigel Short (1965), and Tony Miles (1955).

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