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© Dr Tim Harding
Last modified:
25 March 2012
This is only a start. Readers are invited to suggest other links to sites or pages with serious historical content.
| Articles | Bibliography | Columns | Correspondence chess |
| History links | Tim's books | Tim's research | Zukertort pages |
Edo Historical Chess Ratings. This is an exciting ongoing project by Canadian mathematician Dr Rod Edwards, who provides career records and year-by-year rating statistics for 19th century amateurs and professionals. Ratings are revised periodically as new historical data becomes available from research in primary sources. Some years in the early 20th century are also now included.
Chess History Editor: Richard Forster. INCORPORATING: Edward Winter's Chess Notes. This is a popular column based on reader contributions with new items added nearly every day.
Chess Archaeology Editor: Richard Pope. An older chess history site which recently sprang into new life, with its Jack O'Keeffe Project, posting page images from many 19th century American chess columns. The site also hosts historical articles from several contributors although these are mostly very old by now.
The Chess Cafe (home of The Kibitzer). Includes historical articles as well as much topical content. A good archive of old articles in PDF format.
McFarland Publishing. McFarland are indisputably the leading producers of quality chess history books. They recently published Tim Harding's history of correspondence chess and have commissioned a new book from Tim, which is being written at present and should appear late in 2012.
Batgirl's chess articles Sarah Beth writes at chess.com about women's chess history and connections between chess and art .
English genealogist John Townsend last year published a book on Howard Staunton. It is only available from the author at £25 plus postage. This is not a game collection or full biography, but includes much new information on Staunton's contemporaries on the London chess scene, about his wife's family, and some interesting research-based speculations about Staunton's origins. This book also has the best coverage yet seen on his Shakespeare editorial work.
Ken Whyld Association. The KWA is an international association of people interested in chess literature and chess history. Tim Harding will be one of several speakers at its meeting on 14 April 2012 in the George Hotel, Norwich. He previously a lecture at its 2005 annual meeting in Amsterdam.
British readers will be interested in the Chess History section of the English Chess Forum.
Moravian Chess. Dr Vlastimil Fiala's reprint house for chess books and periodicals from the 19th and early 20th century. They also publish (at erratic intervals) the 'Quarterly for Chess History'.
The most important libraries for chess historians:
Cleveland Public Library (John G. White Collection), Cleveland, Ohio
- the world's largest public
chess library; about to launch a new web catalog that should make finding its chess holdings much easier.
KB: the National library of the Netherlands (at The Hague) - Europe's chess Mecca: the biggest and most accessible chess collection on the continent. Most of what you would want is either on open shelves or accessible within an hour. Only 30 minutes from Schiphol Airport on the train, and then two minutes walk from Den Haag Centraal station.