Timothy David Harding (born 6 May 1948 in London

London

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) is a prolific chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player and author with particular expertise regarding correspondence chess

Correspondence chess

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon...

. He published a correspondence chess magazine Chess Mail from 1996 to 2006 and has authored "The Kibitzer," a ChessCafe.com

ChessCafe.com

ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history....

 column from 1996. In 2002, he was awarded the title Senior International Master of Correspondence Chess by the International Correspondence Chess Federation

International Correspondence Chess Federation

International Correspondence Chess Federation was founded in 1951 as a new appearance of the ICCA , which was founded in 1945, as successor of the IFSB , founded in 1928....

. Harding has lived in Dublin since 1976.

In 2009 Harding received a Ph.D degree in history from University of Dublin

University of Dublin

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, with his thesis on correspondence chess in Britain & Ireland, 1824-1914.

He is credited with coming up with the name of the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation

Frankenstein-Dracula Variation

The Frankenstein–Dracula Variation is a chess opening, usually considered a branch of the Vienna Game, but can also be reached from the Bishop's Opening...

 in his 1975 Vienna Game

Vienna Game

The Vienna Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves:White's second move is less common than 2.Nf3, and is also of more recent vintage; a book reviewer wrote in the New York Times in 1888 that "since Morphy only one new opening has been introduced, the 'Vienna.The original idea behind...

book.

Books

• 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)
• 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

• 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)

Source: Hardings chess bibliography: http://www.chessmail.com/timsite/tim_books.html ref. 7.11.2010

External links

• Tim Harding Homepage