Tim Harding (chess player)

Timothy David (Tim) Harding (born 6 May 1948 in London)^[1] is a chess player and author with particular expertise in correspondence chess. He published a correspondence chess magazine Chess Mail from 1996 to 2006^[2] and authored "The Kibitzer", a ChessCafe.com column from 1996 until 2015.^[3] In 2002, he was awarded the title Senior International Master of Correspondence Chess by the International Correspondence Chess Federation. Harding has lived in Dublin since 1976,^[2] writing a weekly column for The Sunday Press from then until 1995.

In 2009, Harding received a PhD degree in history from University of Dublin, with his thesis on correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824–1914.^[4]

He is credited with coining the name Frankenstein–Dracula Variation in his 1975 Vienna Game 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. [with 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 [largely 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 [with 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 [ed. A.J.Whiteley] (Batsford, 1981)
• French: MacCutcheon and Advance Lines (Batsford, 1979)
• French: Classical Lines [with 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 [with G.S.Botterill] (1977)
• The Scotch [mostly by G.S.Botterill] (1977)
• The Leningrad Dutch (1976)
• The Batsford Guide To Chess Openings [with Leonard Barden] (1976)
• Sicilian: …e5 [with P.R.Markland] (1976)
• Vienna Opening (Chess Player, 1976)
• The Sicilian Richter-Rauzer [with P.R.Markland] (1975)
• 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:^[5]

• 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

External links

• Official website
• Tim Harding player profile and games at Chessgames.com