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{{Short description|British chess player and writer (born 1948)}}
{{Confused|Tim Harding (musician)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox chess player
|country = [[Ireland]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|5|6}}
|birth_place = [[London]], [[England]]
|title =[[Candidate Master]] (2015)
|peakrating = 2250 (January 1981)
}}
'''Timothy David Harding''' (born 6 May 1948 in [[London]])<ref name="Gaige">{{citation
 | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
 | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
 | publisher=McFarland
 | isbn=0-7864-2353-6
 | page=163}}</ref> is a [[chess]] player and author with particular expertise in [[correspondence chess]]. He has lived in [[Dublin]] since 1976,<ref name="Harding" /> writing a weekly column for [[The Sunday Press]] from then until 1995. Harding published a correspondence chess magazine ''Chess Mail'' from 1996 to 2006<ref name="Harding">{{cite web |url= http://www.chessmail.com/timsite |publisher= Tim Harding |title= Chess Mail}}</ref> and authored "The Kibitzer", a [[ChessCafe.com]] column from 1996 until 2015.<ref>{{ cite web |url= http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#TheKibitzer |title= Kibitzer |publisher= Chess Cafe |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100107201159/http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#TheKibitzer |archivedate= 2010-01-07 }}</ref> In 2002, he was awarded the title [[Senior International Master of Correspondence Chess]] by the [[International Correspondence Chess Federation]]. He received the [[FIDE title]] of Candidate Master (CM) in 2015.

In 2009, Harding received a PhD degree in history from [[University of Dublin]], with his thesis on correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824–1914.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://library.catalogue.tcd.ie/record=b14064758~S7 |title= Catalog entry of thesis 'Battle at Long Range' |publisher=Trinity College Dublin |year= 2009 }}</ref>

He is credited with coining the name [[Frankenstein–Dracula Variation]] in his 1975 [[Vienna Game]] book.

==Partial bibliography==

* ''Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography'' (McFarland & Co., Inc. 2015)
* ''Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies'' (McFarland & Co., Inc. 2012)
* ''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)
* ''Better Chess for Average Players'' (Oxford Uni Press, 1978) 
* ''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 [[Peter Markland|P.R.Markland]]] (1976)
* ''Vienna Opening'' (Chess Player, 1976)
* ''The Sicilian Richter-Rauzer'' [with [[Peter Markland|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==
CDs:<ref>{{cite web |title= Hardings chess bibliography |url= http://www.chessmail.com/timsite/tim_books.html |accessdate= July 11, 2010}}</ref>
* 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)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.chessmail.com/timsite}}
* {{Chessgames player|78251|Tim Harding}}
* {{FIDE|2500256|Tim D. Harding}}
* {{ICCF|260043|Timothy David Harding}}

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