David Brine Pritchard (1919 - 2005) was a chess writer and indoor game consultant. Almost one million copies of his chess books have been sold. However, Pritchard is mostly known as an author of The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, where he described more then 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. 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ... A chess variant is any game derived from or related to chess. ... Extinction chess is a variant of western Chess where the objective of the game has changed. ... Kriegspiel is a chess variant in which each player can see their own pieces, but not those of their opponent. ... Progressive chess is a chess variant in which players, rather than just making one move per turn, play progressively longer series of moves. ...
Besides this Pritchard was an editor of Games and Puzzles from 1972 to 1981. He was also a games director of the Mind Sports Olympiad and president of the British Chess Variants Society. Categories: Game stubs | Organization stubs | Organizations ...
Books
Here is a list of books written by D.B.Pritchard:
Brain Games: The World's Best Games for Two (1982), ISBN 0140056823
Puzzles for Geniuses (1984), ISBN: 0137446322
First Moves: How to Start a Chess Game (1986), ISBN 0064637182,
Begin Chess (1992), ISBN 0451174380
The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (1994), ISBN 0952414201
Card Games (1995), ISBN 0713638168
The Right Way to Play Chess (2000), ISBN 1585740462
Popular Chess Variants (2000), ISBN 0713485787
External links
David Pritchard 1919 - 2005 by John Beasley, Variant Chess, N 51, January 2006, pp 98, 99.
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