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Tim Harding's chess publications

 

I have been a published chess author since 1973.

My forthcoming history of correspondence chess will be published by McFarland later this year. You can pre-order it from them.

There is substantial information about it on this site and more will be added nearer to publication date.

Chess Mail Ltd., published four of my recent books, The Write Move, 50 Golden Chess Games and the earlier Startling Correspondence Chess Miniatures, as well as Red Letters which I co-authored with Sergey Grodzensky.

 

Tim Harding's Chess Bibliography

By now I have well over 30 titles to my name, several written with co-authors. The majority are no longer in print. In all cases I have retained the electronic rights and am considering how best to use these.

My chess history articles for journals are listed on my publications page.

I have listed the books I have written in reverse order, recent ones first. Most of the older ones were published by B.T.Batsford of London; I have only named the publisher where it was different.

  • Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987: A History (McFarland, 2010). In press.
  • UltraCorr CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2006). Followed by Ultracorr2 (2008), UltraCorr3 (2009), and UltraCorr3a (2010).
  • The Write Move (Chess Mail Ltd., 2005).
  • MegaCorr4 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003).
  • 50 Golden Chess Games (Chess Mail Ltd., 2004).
  • Red Letters with CC-GM Sergey Grodzensky, (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003) out of print.
  • MegaCorr3 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003) superseded by the Ultracorr series.
  • 64 Great Chess Games (Chess Mail Ltd., 2002) out of print.
  • The Total Marshall (CD-ROM) (Chess Mail Ltd., 2002).
  • MegaCorr2 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2001).
  • Counter Gambits (Dover edition; US $8.95. ISBN 0-486-41578-3).
  • Startling Correspondence Chess Miniatures (Chess Mail Ltd., 2000).
  • Why You Lose At Chess (Rewritten Dover edition of 1982 work; published March 16, 2001; US price $6.95. ISBN #0-486-41372-1.
  • MegaCorr CD-ROM (The Correspondence Chess Collection of the Century, Chess Mail Ltd., 1999).
  • Four Gambits To Beat The French (Chess Digest, 1998).
  • Correspondence Chess World CD-ROM (Chess Mail, 1998).
  • Chess Openings for the Average Player [with Leonard Barden] (reprint of the 1987 book).
  • Play The Evans Gambit [with Bernard Cafferty] (Cadogan, 1997; complete update of the work first published by Robert Hale in 1976).
  • Winning at Correspondence Chess (May 1996).
  • Better Chess For Average Players (Dover, 1996; Oxford University Press, 1977; also translated into German & published by Rowohlt as Besser Schachspielen, 1980).
  • Evans Gambit and a System v Two Knights Defense, Revised 2nd Ed Chess Digest, 1996; previous editions 1991 and 1983).
  • The Fighting Fajarowicz (Chess Digest, 1995).
  • The Classical French (1991).
  • The Marshall Attack [largely by GM John Nunn] (1989).
  • Dynamic White Openings AND Dynamic Black Defenses (Chess Digest 1989, based on 1986 work)
  • The Games of the World Correspondence Championships I-X (1987, extended edition of 1979 book).
  • Openings for the Club Player [with Leonard Barden] (1987, based on 1976 book).
  • Irregular Openings for the 1990's (Chess Digest 1986, based on 1974 booklet).
  • The New Chess Computer Book (Pergamon Press, 1985).
  • Ponziani Opening (Chess Digest 1984, based on a 1974 booklet).
  • Philidor's Defense, A Reappraisal (Chess Digest 1984, based on a 1973 booklet).
  • Why You Lose At Chess (1982; new Dover edition 2001).
  • Nimzowitsch Defence (1981).
  • The Chess Computer Book (Pergamon Press, 1981).
  • Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav [ed. A. J. Whiteley] (Batsford, 1981).
  • The Games of the World Correspondence Championships I-VII (1979).
  • French: MacCutcheon and Advance Lines (1979).
  • French: Classical Lines [with Wolfgang Heidenfeld] (1979).
  • Colle, London and Blackmar-Diemer Systems (1979).
  • 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] (My first Batsford book, 1974).
  • Counter Gambits (British Chess Magazine, 1974; reprinted by Dover, see above).
  • Bishop's Opening (Chess Player, 1973).