Tim Harding (chess player)
Timothy David (Tim) Harding (born 6 May 1948 in London)[1] is a chess player and author with particular expertise in correspondence chess. He published a correspondence chess magazine Chess Mail from 1996 to 2006[2] and authored "The Kibitzer", a ChessCafe.com column from 1996 until 2015.[3] In 2002, he was awarded the title Senior International Master of Correspondence Chess by the International Correspondence Chess Federation. Harding has lived in Dublin since 1976,[2] writing a weekly column for The Sunday Press from then until 1995.
In 2009, Harding received a PhD degree in history from University of Dublin, with his thesis on correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824–1914.[4]
He is credited with coining the name Frankenstein–Dracula Variation in his 1975 Vienna Game book.
Partial bibliography
- Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography (McFarland & Co., Inc. 2015)
- Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies (McFarland & Co., Inc. 2012)
- The Write Move (Chess Mail Ltd., 2005)
- 50 Golden Chess Games (Chess Mail Ltd., 2004)
- Red Letters with CC-GM Sergey Grodzensky (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003)
- 64 Great Chess Games (Chess Mail Ltd., 2002)
- Counter Gambits (Dover, 2001)
- Startling Correspondence Chess Miniatures (Chess Mail Ltd., 2000)
- Why You Lose At Chess, 2nd ed. (Dover, 2001)
- Four Gambits To Beat The French (Chess Digest, 1998).
- Play The Evans Gambit, rev. ed. [with Bernard Cafferty] (Cadogan, 1997)
- Winning at Correspondence Chess (Batsford, May 1996).
- Better Chess For Average Players (Dover, 1996; Oxford University Press, 1977)
- Evans Gambit and a System v Two Knights Defense, 2nd ed (Chess Digest, 1996)
- The Fighting Fajarowicz (Chess Digest, 1995)
- The Classical French (Batsford, 1991)
- The Marshall Attack [largely by GM John Nunn] (Batsford, 1989)
- Dynamic White Openings AND Dynamic Black Defenses (Chess Digest 1989)
- The Games of the World Correspondence Championships I-X, rev. ed.(Batsford, 1987)
- Openings for the Club Player [with Leonard Barden] (1987)
- Irregular Openings for the 1990s (Chess Digest, 1986)
- The New Chess Computer Book (Pergamon Press, 1985)
- Ponziani Opening (Chess Digest 1984)
- Philidor's Defense, A Reappraisal (Chess Digest 1984)
- Nimzowitsch Defence (1981)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav [ed. A.J.Whiteley] (Batsford, 1981)
- French: MacCutcheon and Advance Lines (Batsford, 1979)
- French: Classical Lines [with W.Heidenfeld] (Batsford, 1979)
- Colle, London and Blackmar-Diemer Systems (Batsford, 1979)
- Better Chess for Average Players (Oxford Uni Press, 1978)
- Spanish (Ruy Lopez): Marshall (1977)
- The Italian Game [with G.S.Botterill] (1977)
- The Scotch [mostly by G.S.Botterill] (1977)
- The Leningrad Dutch (1976)
- The Batsford Guide To Chess Openings [with Leonard Barden] (1976)
- Sicilian: …e5 [with P.R.Markland] (1976)
- Vienna Opening (Chess Player, 1976)
- The Sicilian Richter-Rauzer [with P.R.Markland] (1975)
- The Sicilian Sozin [with G.S.Botterill & C.Kottnauer] (1974)
- The Marshall Attack [with R.G.Wade] (1974)
- Counter Gambits (British Chess Magazine, 1974)
- Bishop's Opening (Chess Player, 1973)
Electronic publications
CDs:[5]
- UltraCorr3a (2010)
- UltraCorr3 (2009)
- UltraCorr2 (2008)
- UltraCorr CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2006)
- MegaCorr4 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003)
- MegaCorr3 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003)
- The Total Marshall (CD-ROM) (Chess Mail Ltd., 2002)
- MegaCorr2 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2001)
- MegaCorr CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 1999)
- Correspondence Chess World CD-ROM (Chess Mail, 1998)
References
- ↑ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 163, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- 1 2 "Chess Mail". Tim Harding.
- ↑ "Kibitzer". Chess Cafe.
- ↑ "Catalog entry of thesis 'Battle at Long Range'". Trinity College Dublin. 2009.
- ↑ "Hardings chess bibliography". Retrieved July 11, 2010.
External links
- Official website
- Tim Harding player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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