Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament

The Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament is an annual chess tournament played in honour of the chess legend Howard Staunton (1810-1874). The first edition was played in 2003 in Simpson's-in-the-Strand, London, England to mark the its 175th birthday, and since then all edition have been held there. Simpson's-in-the-Strand is a restaurant which Staunton regularly visited in the 19th century to play and discuss chess (it was then a coffee house known as "The Divan" or "Simpson's Divan"). [cite book
publisher=Fontana
year=1975
author=Schonberg, H.C.
title=Grandmasters of Chess
chapter=The Age of Staunton
pages=37-46
id=ISBN 0006336183] The first three editions were played as a four-player double round-robin tournament. The fourth and fifth edition saw an expansion to twelve participants participating in a single round robin with twelve participants. The 2008 tournament is the strongest to be held in London since 1986. [cite web
url=http://www.howardstaunton.com/hsmt2008/index.shtml
title=The 6th Staunton Memorial Tournament 2008
publisher=The Howard Staunton Memorial Society
accessdate=2008-06-25]

Winners

Below is the list of winners of the Memorial tournament. Where several players with the same score, the winner was decided by tie break score, and is here displayed in boldface.

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References

*Reports from The Week in Chess: [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic461.html#3 2003] , [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic512.html#6 2004] , [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic565.html#5 2005] , [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic616.html#4 2006] , [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic667.html#4 2007] , [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic719.html#4 2008]
*Official homepage: [http://howardstaunton.com/hsmt.shtml]