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Chess historians

Yuri Averbakh Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Аверба́х; 8 February 1922 – 7 May 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. He was the first centenaria ...

* Henry Bird *

Ricardo Calvo Ricardo Calvo Mínguez (October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002) was a Spanish chess player, doctor, author, reporter, and chess historian, who was awarded the title of International Master in 1973 and played for Spain at the Chess Olympiads o ...

(October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002) *

Hiram Cox Captain Hiram Cox (1760–1799) was a British diplomat, serving in Bengal and Burma in the 18th century. The city of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh is named after him. Biography As an officer of the East India Company, Captain Cox was appointed Supe ...

* G. H. Diggle *

David Vincent Hooper David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915 – 3 May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer. As an amateur, he tied for fifth place in the 1949 British Championship at Felixstowe. He was the British correspondence chess champi ...

Willard Fiske Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York. Biography Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamilt ...

*Professor Duncan Forbes *

Jeremy Gaige Jeremy Gaige (October 9, 1927 in New York – February 19, 2011) was an American chess archivist and journalist. He was best known for his work collecting and publishing tournament results and basic biographical data on chess players. Hooper and ...

* Ann Gunter *

Tim Harding (chess player) Timothy David Harding (born 6 May 1948 in London) is a chess player and author with particular expertise in correspondence chess. He has lived in Dublin since 1976, writing a weekly column for The Sunday Press from then until 1995. Harding publi ...

* H. F. W. Holt p. 5. *

Thomas Hyde Thomas Hyde (29 June 163618 February 1703) was an English linguist, historian, librarian, classicist, and orientalist. His chief work was the 1700 'On the Ancient Religion of the Persians'' the first attempt to use Arab and Persian sources ...

(29 June 1636 – 18 February 1703) *Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) *

Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by ...

Baron von der Lasa Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as Baron von der Lasa, 17 October 1818, Berlin – 27 July 1899, Storchnest near Lissa, Greater Poland, then German Empire) was a German chess master, chess historian and theor ...

* David H. Li *

Antonius van der Linde Antonius is a masculine given name, as well as a surname. Antonius is a Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of ...

* A. A. Macdonell *

H. J. R. Murray Harold James Ruthven Murray (24 June 1868 – 16 May 1955) was a British educationalist, inspector of schools, and prominent chess historian. His book, ''A History of Chess'', is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive his ...

(June 24, 1868 – May 16, 1955) *

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, in ...

* A. v. Oefele * M. E. V. Savenkof * F. Strohmeyer *

Olimpiu G. Urcan Olimpiu Di Luppi (born Urcan, 1977) is a historian and author. Of Italian and Turkish heritage, he is a Permanent Resident in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in ma ...

* Bo Utas * John Griswold White *

Ken Whyld Kenneth Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'', a single-volume chess reference work in English. Whyld was a str ...

(6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) *

William Henry Wilkinson Sir William Henry Wilkinson (traditional Chinese: 務謹順, simplified Chinese: 务谨顺; May 10, 1858The Foreign Office list and diplomatic and consular year book for 1917, Foreign Office, Great Britain. - 1930) was a British Sinologist who se ...

* Edward Winter

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External links

Initiative Group Königstein Edward Winter's Chess History Column
* History of chess

Historians A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...