- Ken Whyld
Kenneth Whyld (
March 6 ,1926 -July 11 ,2003 ) was a Britishchess 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 ofNottinghamshire . He subsequently made his living ininformation 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 ofEmanuel 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 championAlexander 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 ofLake Geneva inSwitzerland (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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