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Ken Whyld
Country
England
Born
(1926-03-06)6 March 1926 Nottingham, England
Died
11 July 2003(2003-07-11) (aged 77)
Kenneth Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of The Oxford Companion to Chess, a single-volume chess reference work in English.
Whyld was a strong amateur chess player, taking part in the British Chess Championship in 1956 and winning the county championship of Nottinghamshire. He subsequently made his living in information technology while writing books on chess and researching its history.
As well as The Oxford Companion to Chess, Whyld was the author of other reference works such as Chess: The Records (1986), an adjunct to the Guinness Book of Records and the comprehensive The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker (1998). He also researched more esoteric subjects, resulting in works such as Alekhine Nazi Articles (2002) on articles in favour of the Nazi Party supposedly written by world chess champion Alexander Alekhine, and the bibliographies Fake Automata in Chess (1994) and Chess Columns: A List (2002).
From 1978 until his death in 2003, Whyld wrote the "Quotes and Queries" column in the British Chess Magazine.
A number of chess historians, including Dale Brandreth, Frank Skoff and Edward Winter, all of whom had close contact with Whyld, came to question his reliability and bona fides on certain issues.[1]
Shortly after Whyld's death, the Ken Whyld Association was established with the aim of compiling a comprehensive chess bibliography in database form and promoting chess history.
Whyld's library was later sold to the Musée Suisse du Jeu, located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland (as reported in number 152 of EG).
close contact with Whyld, came to question his reliability and bona fides on certain issues. Shortly after Whyld's death, the KenWhyld Association was established...
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his chess writing, including The Oxford Companion to Chess (1992 with KenWhyld), Steinitz (Hamburg 1968, in German), and A Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames...
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best to never hold chess world crown", The Guardian David Hooper, KenWhyld, Kenneth Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, Oxford University Press 1992, page...
chess, according to number 152 of EG, which reports their purchase of KenWhyld's library in 2004. As of January 2010, the British Chess Variants Society...
of other matters. Chess historians H. J. R. Murray, David Hooper and KenWhyld described Edge as unreliable and having an extreme bias against Staunton...
after achieving a winning position against Max Euwe. David Hooper and KenWhyld note that Denker may have been unfortunate in that his best years came...
Reitstein, published from 1953 to 1986. Guinness Chess: The Records, by KenWhyld (1986), page 114. This list covers the period from 1892 until 1986. Chess...
players in Dorpat and was particularly known for his blindfold play (KenWhyld, personal communication, 1995). He was president of the Dorpat chess club...
Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2012. KenWhyld,Chess, The Records (1986), p. 150 365Chess.com George Henry Mackenzie...
contains around 5,000 books. The book and correspondence collection of KenWhyld, an English historian of the chess game who died in 2003, is one of them...
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Irish championship in 1865, such as The Guinness Book of Chess Records by KenWhyld. But further articles and his obituaries discount this and state he was...
Magazine (January 1978) – Your Hundred Best Chess Tournaments To 1960 (by KenWhyld) British Chess Magazine (August 1979) – Reflections on Montreal (by Raymond...
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Publications #221, 1976. ISBN 0 85263 478 1. A second edition, revised by KenWhyld, was published in 1979. The Boardgame Book – Bookthrift Company / Marshall...
Chronology 1800 – 1899 Crescendo of the Virtuoso "ch1" David Hooper, KenWhyld, The Oxford companion to chess (1984) page 326, and second edition p390...
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