Tim Harding (chess player)

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Timothy David 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[]

  1. ^ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 163, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Chess Mail". Tim Harding.
  3. ^ "Kibitzer". Chess Cafe. Archived from the original on 2010-01-07.
  4. ^ "Catalog entry of thesis 'Battle at Long Range'". Trinity College Dublin. 2009.
  5. ^ "Hardings chess bibliography". Retrieved July 11, 2010.

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