Taylor Kingston

Taylor Kingston (born 1949) has been a chess enthusiast since his teens. He holds a Class A over-the-board USCF rating, and was a correspondence master in the 1980s (before computers took over). But his greatest love is the game’s history. His historical articles have appeared in Chess Life, New In Chess, Inside Chess, Kingpin, and the web-site www.ChessCafe.com. He co-authored Heroic Tales: The Best of ChessCafe.com 1996-2001, and the 2023 edition of The Life and Games of Carlos Torre. Fluent in Spanish, he served as translator for the English editions of 15 Aspirantes al Título Mundial by Miguel Najdorf (2012), and the biography Najdorf x Najdorf (2016). He is sole author of Edgard Colle, Caissa’s Wounded Warrior (2021). In recent years his German has also been put to the test, in research for Emanuel Lasker: A Reader (Russell Enterprises, 2019),  Chess in the Third Reich (McFarland, 2025), and the present volume. He lives with his wife Emily in Paso Robles, California.