Editing Howard Staunton (section)

===1836–1842, first steps in chess===
In 1836, Staunton came to London, where he took out a subscription for William Greenwood Walker's ''Games at Chess, actually played in London, by the late [[Alexander McDonnell (chess player)|Alexander McDonnell]] Esq.'' Staunton was apparently twenty-six when he took a serious interest in chess. He said that at that time the strongest players he saw in London, [[Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant|Saint-Amant]] and [[George Walker (chess player)|George Walker]], could easily have given him [[Chess handicap|rook odds]].<ref name="Murray1908Staunton"/>

In 1838 he played many games with [[William Davies Evans|Captain Evans]], inventor of the [[Evans Gambit]], and also lost a match against the German chess writer [[Aaron Alexandre]]. He had improved sufficiently by 1840 to win a match against the German master H.W.&nbsp;Popert,<ref name="ScoresRomanticEra"/> a slow, cautious player with great defensive skill.<ref name="Murray1908Staunton"/>

From May to December&nbsp;1840 Staunton edited a chess column for the ''New Court Gazette''. He then became chess editor of the magazine ''British Miscellany'', and his chess column developed into a separate magazine, the ''[[Chess Player's Chronicle]]'', which Staunton owned and edited until the early 1850s.<ref name="Murray1908Staunton">
{{cite magazine
 | author=Murray, H.J.R. | author-link=H. J. R. Murray
 | date=November 1908
 | title=Howard Staunton: Part&nbsp;I
 | magazine=British Chess Magazine
 | url=http://sbchess.sinfree.net/Staunton_BCM.html
 | access-date=19 June 2008
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208141521/http://sbchess.sinfree.net/Staunton_BCM.html
 | archive-date=8 December 2007
}}
and
{{cite magazine
 | author=Murray, H.J.R. | author-link=H. J. R. Murray
 | date=November 1908
 | title=Howard Staunton: Part&nbsp;II
 | magazine=British Chess Magazine
 | url=http://sbchess.sinfree.net/Staunton_BCM.html
 | access-date=19 June 2008
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071208141521/http://sbchess.sinfree.net/Staunton_BCM.html
 | archive-date = 8 December 2007
}}
</ref><ref name="BritishMiscellany">
The transformation can be seen at {{cite book
 | editor=Staunton, H.
 | year=1841
 | title=The British Miscellany and Chess Player's Chronicle
 | publisher=Williamson
 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3wEAAAAQAAJ&q=%22British+Miscellany%22&pg=PA1
 | access-date=19 June 2008
}}
</ref>