it was published in 2007 with the title The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Archival material Five boxes of archival material related to Pritchard's research for The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants are held by the Ken Whyld Library of the Swiss Museum of Games. Books The Right Way to Play Chess (orig pub. 1950; 2000), Play Chess (1960), Begin Chess (1970), Go: A Guide to the Game (1973), Puzzles and Teasers for Everyone (Ed., 1974) Modern Board Games (Ed., 1975), Oriental Board Games (booklet, 1977), Popular Indoor Games (1977), ASIN B000PQ50XG Puzzles and Teasers for the Easy Chair (orig pub. 1977; 1988), Brain Games: The World's Best Games for Two (1982), Five-Minute Games (1984), Puzzles for Geniuses (1984), Puzzles for Geniuses: Vol II (with Darryl Francis Pritchard, 1984), ASIN B000OIWREU First Moves: How to Start a Chess Game (1986), Beginning Chess (1992), The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (1994), The Family Book of Games (1994), Card Games (booklet, 1995), Patience Games (with David Parlett, 1996), Popular Chess Variants (2000), Honeycomb Chess (with Douglas Graham Reid, 2002), The New Mahjong: The International Game (2004), A Family Book of Games (2007), Teach Yourself Mahjong (2007), The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (2007), British Chess Variants Society The British Chess Variants Society (or BCVS) was an association of chess variant players and developers formally active between 1997 and 2010., and Pritchard was its inaugural president. Starting in 1996, the Society (at the time only provisionally constituted) published Variant Chess (), a quarterly chess variant magazine. (The magazine predated the formation of the Society, having been established by chess writer George Jelliss in 1990.) The Society also established a chess variant library containing some 120 subject items in a variety of languages. References External links David Pritchard 1919–2005 by John Beasley, Variant Chess, No. 51, January 2006, pp. 98–99. Interview with David Pritchard 1999 interview, The Chess Variant Pages David Brine Pritchard British non-fiction writers 1919 births 2005 deaths British chess writers Chess variant inventors Tabletop game writers British male writers 20th-century non-fiction writers Male non-fiction writers