David Pritchard (chess writer)
- David Pritchard (chess writer)
David Brine Pritchard (1919 - 2005) was a British chess writer and indoor game consultant. Almost one million copies of his chess books have been sold. However, Pritchard is mostly known the an author of "The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants", where he described more than 1400 different chess variants. In his second book on chess variants, "Popular Chess Variants", Pritchard concentrated on 20 most popular chess variants, such as extinction chess, kriegspiel, progressive chess and others, but described them in more detail. He was also close to finishing the second edition of "The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants" when he died in 2005.
Besides writing books, Pritchard was also an editor of "Games and Puzzles" from 1972 to 1981. He was a games director of the Mind Sports Organisation and president of the British Chess Variants Society.
Books
* "Brain Games: The World's Best Games for Two" (1982), ISBN 0-14-005682-3
* "Puzzles for Geniuses" (1984), ISBN 0-13-744632-2
* "First Moves: How to Start a Chess Game" (1986), ISBN 0-06-463718-2,
* "Beginning Chess" (1992), ISBN 0-451-17438-0
* "The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants" (1994), ISBN 0-9524142-0-1
* "Card Games" (1995), ISBN 0-7136-3816-8
* "The Right Way to Play Chess" (2000), ISBN 1-58574-046-2
* "Popular Chess Variants" (2000), ISBN 0-7134-8578-7
* "The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants" (2007), ISBN 0-95551-680-3
External links
* [http://www.bcvs.ukf.net/dbp.htm David Pritchard 1919 - 2005] by John Beasley, "Variant Chess", N 51, January 2006, pp 98, 99.
* [http://www.right-way.co.uk/pritchard.html David Brine Pritchard]
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