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Ken Whyld | |
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| Country | England |
| Born | (1926-03-06)6 March 1926 Nottingham, England |
| Died | 11 July 2003(2003-07-11) (aged 77) |
Kenneth Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) was a Britishchess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (withDavid Hooper) ofThe Oxford Companion to Chess, a single-volume chess reference work in English.
Whyld was a strong amateur chess player, taking part in theBritish Chess Championship in 1956 and winning the county championship ofNottinghamshire. He subsequently made his living ininformation technology while writing books on chess and researching its history.
As well asThe Oxford Companion to Chess, Whyld was the author of other reference works such asChess: The Records (1986), an adjunct to theGuinness Book of Records and the comprehensiveThe Collected Games ofEmanuel Lasker (1998). He also researched more esoteric subjects, resulting in works such asAlekhine Nazi Articles (2002) on articles in favour of the Nazi Party supposedly written by world chess championAlexander Alekhine, and the bibliographiesFake Automata in Chess (1994) andChess Columns: A List (2002).
From 1978 until his death in 2003, Whyld wrote the "Quotes and Queries" column in theBritish Chess Magazine.
A number of chess historians, including Dale Brandreth, Frank Skoff andEdward Winter, all of whom had close contact with Whyld, came to question his reliability and bona fides on certain issues.[1]
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 theMusée Suisse du Jeu, located on the shores ofLake Geneva inSwitzerland (as reported innumber 152 ofEG).
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