BCN remembers much loved Ken Whyld who passed away on July 11th 2003 in Lincolnshire.
From Chess : The Records :
“Ken Whyld was the editor of Chess Students Quarterly in the early 1950s and from 1955-63, Chess Reader, in which he reviewed more than 500 chess books. He has written seven tournament books and one match book.
With J. Gilchrist he wrote a three-volume anthology of Lasker’s games, and with David Hooper, The Oxford Companion to Chess.
For the book World Chess Champions he wrote the chapters on Lasker and Smyslov. In his playing days he was champion of his county (Nottinghamshire) many times and played in the British Championship as well as international tournaments.”
Possibly the best tribute to Ken was written by John Saunders and Bernard Cafferty in the August 2003 issue of British Chess Magazine, pages 398 – 402.
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[Event “British CF-37 Major Open”]
[Site “Buxton/ Derbyshire”]
[Date “1950.08.24”]
[Round “4”]
[White “Fawcett, Edward Douglas”]
[Black “Whyld, Kenneth”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “C82”]
[Annotator “Whyld,Ken”]
[PlyCount “32”]
[EventDate “1950.08.21”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “11”]
[EventCountry “GBR”]
[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]
[SourceQuality “1”]
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-24,-108,13,-71,-3,-51,-17,-70,-13,-29995,-29996,-29997,-29998]} 1. e4 {
1) Ken Whyld in CHESS 1998/11.} e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4
6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Bc5 {“I particularly remember this game
because here my opponent said ‘Ah! Pillsbury played that against me’.” (Ken
Whyld)} 10. Bc2 O-O 11. Qe2 f5 12. exf6 Rxf6 13. Be3 Bg4 14. Bxc5 Bxf3 15. gxf3
Rg6+ 16. Kh1 Qg5 {Note: E D Fawcett was aged 84 in 1950, having been born in
April 1866. Source: CHESS, November 1998.} 0-1
[/pgn]
Here is his Wikipedia entry
See more details from the Ken Whyld Association
