This is a list of chess historians.

Chess historians

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 Geoffrey Harber Diggle (6 December 1902 – 13 February 1993) Edward WinterChess Note 4337 quoting Winter, CHESS magazine, June 1993, p. 46. was a British chess player and writer. Diggle contributed articles to the '' British Chess Magazine'' ( ...

* David Vincent Hooper * Willard Fiske *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) * H. F. W. Holt p. 5. * Thomas Hyde (29 June 1636 – 18 February 1703) *Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) * Garry Kasparov * Baron von der Lasa *

David H. Li David H. Li is a Chinese-American accountant, chess player, sinologist, translator, and writer. Biography and bibliography He has written several books and also translated several Chinese classics to English. He was born in 1928 in Ningbo, Zhe ...

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 Arthur Anthony Macdonell, FBA (11 May 1854 – 28 December 1930) was a noted Sanskrit scholar. Biography Macdonell was born at Muzaffarpur in the Tirhut region of the state of Bihar in British India, the son of Charles Alexander 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 Bo Utas, born May 26, 1938 in Höglunda, a village in Jämtland, Sweden, is a Swedish linguist, Iranologist and chess historian. He is professor emeritus in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, and a scholar on Persian historical linguistics ...

John Griswold White John Griswold White (10 August 1845 – 27 August 1928) was a prominent Cleveland attorney, a chess connoisseur, and a bibliophile. Early life and education John Griswold White was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1845 to Bushnell and Elizabeth Br ...

* Ken Whyld (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 s ...

* 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 ...