Staunton
Shenandoah Valley town
Staunton typically refers to a standardized chess piece design featuring a distinctive weighted base and collar, with pieces identifiable at a glance—the knight as a horse's head, the bishop with a mitered cap.
Named for Howard Staunton, an English chess master who endorsed the design in 1849, it remains the required style for tournament play.
Staunton is also a city in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
Strategic board game kit
- tournamentMulti-round competitive event
- pieceA portion or segment
- boardFlat rigid panel
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
official · weighted · club · felt · wood · ebony · boxwood · knight
Appalachian river and park
- Blue RidgeAppalachian subrange in the East
- Woodrow WilsonTwenty-eighth American president
- AntebellumBefore the conflict
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chess set
Strategic board game kit
- tournamentMulti-round competitive event
- pieceA portion or segment
- boardFlat rigid panel
regulation · official · weighted · club · felt · wood · ebony · boxwood · knight · king
Shenandoah
Appalachian river and park
- Blue RidgeAppalachian subrange in the East
- Woodrow WilsonTwenty-eighth American president
- AntebellumBefore the conflict
Stonewall Jackson · Appalachia · Old Dominion · Civil War · Newtown
Howard
English given name
- chesscheck, pawns, knights, rooks, pawn
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