Edward Freeborough

Edward Freeborough
Full nameEdward Freeborough
CountryEngland
Born(1830-08-18)18 August 1830
Hull, England
Died14 September 1896(1896-09-14) (aged 66)
Hull, England

Edward Freeborough (18 August 1830 – 14 September 1896)[1] was the co-author, with Charles Ranken, of Chess Openings Ancient and Modern (1889), one of the first important opening treatises in the English language and a precursor of Modern Chess Openings.[2] He was a member of the editorial staff of the British Chess Magazine from 1883 until his death in 1896.[3] He also wrote the books Chess Endings (1891, 1896) and Select Chess End-Games from Actual Play (1895, 1899), and edited the book Analysis of the Chess Ending, King and Queen Against King and Rook by "Euclid" (a pseudonym for A. Crosskill) (1895).[4]

Freeborough had just completed the third edition of Chess Openings Ancient and Modern and transmitted the final version to the publisher "when he was struck down by a sudden and mortal illness".[5]

  1. ^ Jeremy Gaige, Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography, McFarland, 1987, p. 126. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
  2. ^ Mike Fox and Richard James, The Even More Complete Chess Addict, Faber and Faber, 1993, p. 19. ISBN 0-571-17040-4.
  3. ^ Philip W. Sergeant, A Century of British Chess, David McKay, 1934, pp. 190, 229.
  4. ^ Betts 2005, pp. 240, 248–49, 257, 599. ISBN 80-7189-557-1.
  5. ^ E. Freeborough and C.E. Ranken, Chess Openings Ancient and Modern, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (3rd ed. 1896), p. 1.