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© Dr Tim Harding
Last modified:
21 December 2011
This page raises queries about historical research I am doing, mostly concerning 19th century chess players. It will be developed from time to time in future as new questions arise and otehrs are answered.
I have submitted three articles commissioned by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, about Isidor Gunsberg, Mary Rudge, and Captain Evans (inventor of the Evans Gambit). These are now at proof stage.
These will be for published in May 2012 (in conjunction with the Olympic year in Britain) when the ODNB launch many new articles on sporting personalities to coincide with the Olympic Games in London.
For a future book, I am interested in finding out more about the orogins and early history of nineteenth century clubs in Britain (chiefly) catering to indoor games: particularly billiards, chess, draughts (checkers) and whist. These could be gentlemen's clubs or working men's clubs. Also, what was the origin and development of whist drives?
I am also interested in the lives and careers of the following players, mostly Victorians: Henry Thomas Buckle (the historian), Frederick Lokes Slous, James Alexander "Porterfield" Rynd (first Irish chess champion), Charles James Lambert (of Exeter), F. A. Vincent (of Dursley), and George Bellingham (why did he suddenly give up chess?), and Adolphus Zytogorski who ahs been the subject of two of my recent Kibitzer articles.
There are also on this site now separate pages about my currently available book, Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987: A History and the forthcoming book Eminent Victorian Chess Players.