Following Staunton's defeat of St. Amant[?] of France in 1843, he was recognized as the world's strongest chess player (although this was before the establishment of a World Chess championship in 1886).
Staunton went on to write a chess column in the Illustrated London News[?] before founding the world's first chess magazine, the Chess Player's Chronicle[?]. He was also responsible for the first international chess tournament, held in 1851.
A chess set designed by Nathaniel Cook[?] and named after Staunton has become the standard set for both professional and ametuer chess players.
A memorial plaque hangs at his old residence of 117 Lansdowne Road, London W11.
In 1997 a memorial stone bearing an engraving of a chess knight was raised to mark his grave at Kensal Green Cemetery in London. Prior to this his grave had been unmarked.
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