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© Dr Tim Harding
Last modified:
2 February 2012
2 February: Further additions to our research article about Steinitz's 1881 visit to Dublin.
12 January (previously 22 Dec): Further information about Tim's next book, Eminent Victorian Chess Players.
11 January 2012: The Kibitzer looks at chess in the years 1862 and 1912 in his monthly Chess Cafe column.
15 December 2011: Updates for Christmas. Including the origins of the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation in the Vienna Game, as unearthed by Tim Harding.
15 December 2011: Updated Irish links and Irish Correspondence Chess Association page.
14 December 2011: The Kibitzer presents, at the Chess Cafe website, the second part of his two-part major article about Polish/British chess player Adolphus Zytogorski. Did he really beat Staunton 6-0?
10 November 2011: This month's Kibitzer column reveals the double private life of Zytogorski.
3 November 2011: text of a new book by Tim Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players delivered to McFarland.
12 October 2011: The Kibitzer visits Scheveningen, in the Netherlands, where three famous tournamnets were played.
5 September 2011: Tim Harding's book Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987 was one of the four nominated titles for The English Chess Federation's jannual Book of the Year award. The eventual winner was John Nunn's 2-volume work Nunn's Chess Endings.
The first phase of the Research Zone is now complete. If you are a new or occasional visitor, you should find plenty to read here. It is hoped to add some new articles before Christmas.
10 August 2011: Kibitzer column 183 at the Chess Cafe, reviewing an important new book on computer chess
4 August 2011: Added further information to the research article about the Chess Player's Chronicle.
17 July 2011: Kibitzer column 182 at the Chess Cafe, reviewing some new books on the openings.
17 July 2011: Added quotation and link for British Chess Magazine review of my book.
8 June 2011: Kibitzer column 181 at the Chess Cafe, looking at more endgames and the role of tablebases.
6 June 2011: Updated link to Tim's radio interview on 29 May, about his book. The interview, conducted by Irish historian Dr Patrick Geoghegan, is now available as an MP3 file that you can hear on this website.
6 June 2011: Added more information to listings page about early British chess magazines.
18 May 2011: Added an article about the history of Dublin University Chess Club.
10 May 2011: Updated my personal home page and pages about my column, The Kibitzer.
6 May 2011: Page with extracts from reviews of Tim's book. Linked on homepage to a new review of Tim's book.
6 May 2011: Updated our links and chess history links pages.
2 May 2011: Tim scheduled to appear on radio on 29 May to talk about his book.
2 May 2011: Advance information on Tim's work in progress.
30 April 2011: New article listing corrections to Pagni's histories of CC games between clubs.
28 April 2011: Added a photo of Stanley Monck.
26 April 2011: Some additions and corrections to the article on Irish cricketer and chess-player G. F. Barry.
23 April 2011: Fixed some broken links and eliminated some ancient and redundant files. The March 1879 page images of Our School Times have been restored.
22 April 2011: Added further pages to the Research Zone, including an article about Steinitz that includes a recently rediscovered game of his.
22 April 2011: Added more games to the free additions and corrections PGN download database.
21 April 2011: Added new chess history links page in the research zone and updated our general links page.
20-22 April 2011: All pages from the Our School Times chess column are now added to the Research Zone.
16-18 April 2011: The Chess History Research Zone is launched.
Tim Harding is reorienting this site around chess history matters. Many pages are now up, including bibliographical aids for researchers. A lot more will follow later including some discoveries that didn't fit in his book. We are currently presenting the history and page images from the long-lost chess column of Our School Times.
13 April 2011: Kibitzer column 179 at the Chess Cafe, looking at King & Pawn and Queen & Pawn endgames.
2 April 2011: Neil Limbert has posted his favourable review of Tim's Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987 at the BCCA website.
15 March 2011: Dr. Fritz Baumbach retires as Germany's correspondence chess president; his successor as head of BdF is Dr. Uwe Staroske.
9 March 2011: Kibitzer column 178 at the Chess Cafe, looking back to chess in 1911.
19 February 2011: Death of pioneering chess historian Jeremy Gaige, author of Chess Personalia, Chess Tournament Crosstables, etc., aged 83, in Philadelphia.
9 February 2011: Kibitzer on a forgotten Victorian expert.
1 February 2011: Tim's new book Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987 is officially published by McFarland this month. Glowing review of Tim's book by Steven B. Dowd is posted at The Chess Cafe.
SOME MAJOR UPDATES IN THE PAST YEARS:
10 November 2010: Kibitzer column, debunking the myth that the Irish invented chess.
20 July 2010: Chess Mail Ltd. ceases trading as the directors decided to retire.
This website continues as Tim Harding's private site. Thank you for your custom over recent years. Our sales pages have been withdrawn. DO NOT send us any money by bank transfer or in the post; if you do, it will be returned.
27 June 2010: Added a book review on Victorian sport in Westmeath (NOT chess).
10 June 2010: More background information added to the pages about my late father's book Copper Wire.
23 May 2010: Added a free PGN download file of corrections and late additions to our database. This file is updated from time to time with corrections sent to us and games that we found since finalising UltraCorr 3A.
26 May 2010: Updated my bibliography and publications list.
23 April 2010: Feature about GM Zukertort added. Some of this material was on the Chess Mail website a few years ago, but has now been updated. A new article by Tim Harding has been added, about Zukertort's visit to Dublin in 1879.
13 July 2009: Tim Harding's homepage updated with PhD graduation photograph.
14 March 2009: Article about the late Prof Carlo Alberto Pagni's researches into correspondence chess.
14 February 2009: ICCF pioneer Erik Larsson died at his home in Landskrona, Sweden, aged 93. My Chess Mail interview with Erik was updated as the March 2009 article in the Kibitzer series at the Chess Cafe, and Chapter 14 of my history of CC includes much information about Larsson's work in reviving of international correspondence chess after World War Two.
8 January 2009: Chess Mail editor Tim Harding successfully defends his thesis on chess history and is recommended for the award of a Ph.D. (awarded July 2009).
July 2007: Site transferred to a new host.