by Ken Whyld, 476pp. English and Algebraic Notation (Moravian Chess, 2006)

The book contains seventeen works by Ken Whyld, written in 1985-2002, published in small edition and sent to his friends as a Christmas gift. The articles are from eight to several tens of pages long and are devoted mostly to various themes from the history of chess.

 

The titles are as follows:

• The Story of Chess
• Biobibliography List
• Blackburnes Matches 1887
• Letters on the History and Literature of Chess
• Development of the Chess Problem
• The Beginning of Modern Chess
• The Chess Board
• Cafe de la Regence
• The Worst Chess Book in the World
• A la recherche du temps perdu
• Lasker the Composer
• According to Hoyle
• Cordingleys Cuts
• Chess Texts in the English Language before 1850
• Address to the Automaton Chess Player
• The Meeting of the B.C.A. at Cambridge 1860
• Chess in Literature