Ken Whyld

Ken Whyld

Kenneth Whyld (March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of "The Oxford Companion to Chess", the standard 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 "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".

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").

External links

* [http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/news/obitwhyld.html Tributes from the British Chess Magazine website]
* [http://www.chesscafe.com/text/collasker.txt Review of "The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker"]
* [http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_history/mor_alekhine_nazi_articles.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-History&PUBID=MOR&AUTID=118 Review of "Alekhine Nazi Articles"]
* [http://www.kwabc.org/ The Ken Whyld Association]


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