List of chess historians

This is a list of chess historians.

Chess historians

 * Yuri Averbakh
 * Henry Bird
 * Ricardo Calvo (October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002)
 * Hiram Cox
 * G. H. Diggle
 * David Vincent Hooper
 * Willard Fiske
 * Professor Duncan Forbes
 * Jeremy Gaige
 * Ann Gunter
 * Tim Harding (chess player)
 * H. F. W. Holt
 * Thomas Hyde (29 June 1636 – 18 February 1703)
 * Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794)
 * Garry Kasparov
 * Baron von der Lasa
 * David H. Li
 * Antonius van der Linde
 * A. A. Macdonell
 * H. J. R. Murray (June 24, 1868 – May 16, 1955)
 * Joseph Needham
 * A. v. Oefele
 * M. E. V. Savenkof
 * F. Strohmeyer
 * Olimpiu G. Urcan
 * Bo Utas
 * John Griswold White
 * Ken Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003)
 * William Henry Wilkinson
 * Edward Winter
 * Emilia Castelao, her studies focus on chess as a tool in diplomacy