tournament was named after the unofficial world champion, during the 1840s and 50s, Howard Staunton, who had played at Simpson's. This sparked a series of such contests that continued annually until 2009. By 2006, the fourth Staunton Memorial was declared the strongest London all-play-all tournament since 1986, with high calibre grandmasters such as Michael Adams, Ivan Sokolov and Jan Timman competing. In film and literature In The Guns of Navarone, David Niven's character leans over his wounded, dying companion and tells him that when he recovers, they will return to London and go straight to Simpson's to have roast beef. In Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film Sabotage, characters lunch at Simpson's. In E. M. Forster's Howards End, Henry Wilcox is a devotee of Simpson's. Simpson's also features in the Sherlock Holmes stories, including "The Illustrious Client" and "The Adventure of the Dying Detective", which concludes with Holmes' words: "I think that something nutritious at Simpson's would not be out of place." P. G. Wodehouse devoted several paragraphs of Something New to the restaurant, and in his novel Psmith in the City, his two heroes dine there: "Psmith waited for Mike while he changed, and carried him off in a cab to Simpson's, a restaurant which, as he justly observed, offered two great advantages, namely, that you need not dress, and, secondly, that you paid your half-crown, and were then at liberty to eat till you were helpless, if you felt so disposed, without extra charge." Simpson's is also featured in Wodehouse's "Cocktail Time" as the restaurant that one of the characters, Cosmo Wisdom, chooses to lunch at after leaving prison. See also List of restaurants in London Notes References Bird, H E, Chess History and Reminiscences, London, 1893 Jackson, Stanley, The Savoy – The Romance of a Great Hotel, New York, 1964, pps: 38–39, 209. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-8604 Shenk, David, The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, Doubleday, 2006, External links Simpson's in the Strand website 4th Staunton Memorial homepage History of chess Chess in London Chess places Restaurants in London Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster Tourist attractions in the City of Westminster Restaurants established in 1828 1828 establishments in England Strand, London