Timothy David Harding (born 6 May 1948 in
London
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)
is a
chess
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player and author with particular expertise in
correspondence chess
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less common ...
. He has lived in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...
since 1976,
writing a weekly column for
The Sunday Press
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from then until 1995. Harding published a correspondence chess magazine ''Chess Mail'' from 1996 to 2006
and authored "The Kibitzer", a
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It ...
column from 1996 until 2015. In 2002, he was awarded the title
Senior International Master of Correspondence Chess
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by the
International Correspondence Chess Federation
International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) was founded on 26 March 1951 as a new appearance of the International Correspondence Chess Association (ICCA), which was founded in 1945, as successor of the Internationaler Fernschachbund (IF ...
. He received the
FIDE title
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of Candidate Master (CM) in 2015.
In 2009, Harding received a PhD degree in history from
University of Dublin
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, with his thesis on correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824–1914.
He is credited with coining the name
Frankenstein–Dracula Variation in his 1975
Vienna Game
The Vienna Game is an opening in chess that begins with the moves:
:1. e4 e5
:2. Nc3
White's second move is less common than 2.Nf3, and is also more recent.
The original idea behind the Vienna Game was to play a delayed King's Gambit with f ...
book.
Partial bibliography
* ''Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography'' (McFarland & Co., Inc. 2015)
* ''Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies'' (McFarland & Co., Inc. 2012)
* ''The Write Move'' (Chess Mail Ltd., 2005)
* ''50 Golden Chess Games'' (Chess Mail Ltd., 2004)
* ''Red Letters with CC-GM Sergey Grodzensky'' (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003)
* ''64 Great Chess Games'' (Chess Mail Ltd., 2002)
* ''Counter Gambits'' (Dover, 2001)
* ''Startling Correspondence Chess Miniatures'' (Chess Mail Ltd., 2000)
* ''Why You Lose At Chess,'' 2nd ed. (Dover, 2001)
* ''Four Gambits To Beat The French'' (Chess Digest, 1998).
* ''Play The Evans Gambit,'' rev. ed.
ith Bernard Cafferty(Cadogan, 1997)
* ''Winning at Correspondence Chess'' (Batsford, May 1996).
* ''Better Chess For Average Players'' (Dover, 1996; Oxford University Press, 1977)
* ''Evans Gambit and a System v Two Knights Defense'', 2nd ed (Chess Digest, 1996)
* ''The Fighting Fajarowicz'' (Chess Digest, 1995)
* ''The Classical French'' (Batsford, 1991)
* ''The Marshall Attack''
argely by GM John Nunn(Batsford, 1989)
* ''Dynamic White Openings AND Dynamic Black Defenses'' (Chess Digest 1989)
* ''The Games of the World Correspondence Championships I-X,'' rev. ed.(Batsford, 1987)
* ''Openings for the Club Player''
ith Leonard Barden(1987)
* ''Irregular Openings for the 1990s'' (Chess Digest, 1986)
* ''The New Chess Computer Book'' (Pergamon Press, 1985)
* ''Ponziani Opening'' (Chess Digest 1984)
* ''Philidor's Defense, A Reappraisal'' (Chess Digest 1984)
* ''Nimzowitsch Defence'' (1981)
* ''Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav''
d. A.J.Whiteley(Batsford, 1981)
* ''French: MacCutcheon and Advance Lines'' (Batsford, 1979)
* ''French: Classical Lines''
ith W.Heidenfeld(Batsford, 1979)
* ''Colle, London and Blackmar-Diemer Systems'' (Batsford, 1979)
* ''Better Chess for Average Players'' (Oxford Uni Press, 1978)
* ''Spanish (Ruy Lopez): Marshall'' (1977)
* ''The Italian Game''
ith G.S.Botterill(1977)
* ''The Scotch''
ostly by G.S.Botterill(1977)
* ''The Leningrad Dutch'' (1976)
* ''The Batsford Guide To Chess Openings''
ith Leonard Barden(1976)
* ''Sicilian: …e5''
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* ''Vienna Opening'' (Chess Player, 1976)
* ''The Sicilian Richter-Rauzer''
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* ''The Sicilian Sozin'' [with G.S.Botterill & C.Kottnauer] (1974)
* ''The Marshall Attack'' [with R.G.Wade] (1974)
* ''Counter Gambits'' (British Chess Magazine, 1974)
* ''Bishop's Opening'' (Chess Player, 1973)
Electronic publications
CDs:
* UltraCorr3a (2010)
* UltraCorr3 (2009)
* UltraCorr2 (2008)
* UltraCorr CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2006)
* MegaCorr4 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003)
* MegaCorr3 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2003)
* The Total Marshall (CD-ROM) (Chess Mail Ltd., 2002)
* MegaCorr2 CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 2001)
* MegaCorr CD-ROM (Chess Mail Ltd., 1999)
* Correspondence Chess World CD-ROM (Chess Mail, 1998)
References
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1948 births
Living people
British chess writers
Irish chess players
Chess players from London