Tim Harding (chess player)
Timothy David Harding is a chess player and author with particular expertise in correspondence chess. He published a correspondence chess magazine Chess Mail from 1996 to 2006 and authored "The Kibitzer", a ChessCafe.com column from 1996 until 2015. 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, 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.
He is credited with coining the name Frankenstein–Dracula Variation in his 1975 Vienna Game book.Partial bibliography
- Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography
- Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies
- The Write Move
- 50 Golden Chess Games
- Red Letters with CC-GM Sergey Grodzensky
- 64 Great Chess Games
- Counter Gambits
- Startling Correspondence Chess Miniatures
- Why You Lose At Chess, 2nd ed.
- Four Gambits To Beat The French.
- Play The Evans Gambit, rev. ed.
- Winning at Correspondence Chess.
- Better Chess For Average Players
- Evans Gambit and a System v Two Knights Defense, 2nd ed
- The Fighting Fajarowicz
- The Classical French
- The Marshall Attack
- Dynamic White Openings AND Dynamic Black Defenses
- The Games of the World Correspondence Championships I-X, rev. ed.
- Openings for the Club Player
- Irregular Openings for the 1990s
- The New Chess Computer Book
- Ponziani Opening
- Philidor's Defense, A Reappraisal
- Nimzowitsch Defence
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav
- French: MacCutcheon and Advance Lines
- French: Classical Lines
- Colle, London and Blackmar-Diemer Systems
- Better Chess for Average Players
- Spanish : Marshall
- The Italian Game
- The Scotch
- The Leningrad Dutch
- The Batsford Guide To Chess Openings
- Sicilian: …e5
- Vienna Opening
- The Sicilian Richter-Rauzer
- The Sicilian Sozin
- The Marshall Attack
- Counter Gambits
- Bishop's Opening
Electronic publications
CDs:
- UltraCorr3a
- UltraCorr3
- UltraCorr2
- UltraCorr CD-ROM
- MegaCorr4 CD-ROM
- MegaCorr3 CD-ROM
- The Total Marshall
- MegaCorr2 CD-ROM
- MegaCorr CD-ROM
- Correspondence Chess World CD-ROM
