Kenneth Whyld (March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of The Oxford Companion to Chess, the standard single-volume chess reference work in English. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. David Vincent Hooper ( 31 August 1915 - May 1998 born in Reigate, was a British Chess player and writer The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference Book on Chess written by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld.
Whyld was a strong amateur chess player, taking part in the British Chess Championship in 1956 and winning the county championship of Nottinghamshire. The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation. Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire He subsequently made his living in information technology while writing books on chess and researching its history. Information technology ( IT) as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA is "the study design development implementation support
As well as the The Oxford Companion to Chess, Whyld was the author of other reference works such as Chess: The Records (1986), an adjunct to the Guinness Book of Records and the comprehensive The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker (1998). The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference Book on Chess written by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld. Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U For other persons named Lasker see Lasker#People with the surname Lasker. He also researched more esoteric subjects, resulting in works such as Alekhine Nazi Articles (2002) on articles in favour of the Nazi Party supposedly written by world chess champion Alexander Alekhine, and the bibliographies Fake Automata in Chess (1994) and Chess Columns: A List (2002). Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (alʲɛkˈsandr̠ alʲɛkˈsandr̠ovʲiʨ aˈlʲɛxin Russian Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Але́хин) (October
From 1978 until his death in 2003, Whyld wrote the "Quotes and Queries" column in the British Chess Magazine. British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest Chess Magazine in continuous publication
Shortly after Whyld's death, the Ken Whyld Association was established with the aim of compiling a comprehensive chess bibliography in database form and promoting chess history.
Whyld's library was later sold to the Musée Suisse du Jeu, located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland (as reported in number 152 of EG). Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (Lac Léman Léman Lac de Genève is the second largest freshwater Lake in Central Europe in terms of surface area (after Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation EG is a magazine that publishes Endgame studies and discusses various aspects of the endgame in Chess.
External links
- Tributes from the British Chess Magazine website
- Review of The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker
- Review of Alekhine Nazi Articles
- The Ken Whyld Association
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