David Pritchard (chess player)

He gained pre-eminence as an indoor games and mind sports consultant, a role that he in effect created.

He was also a games director for the Mind Sports Organisation, and president of the British Chess Variants Society.

During and after the Second World War Pritchard was an RAF pilot who served mainly in the Far East, obtaining the rank of squadron leader.

[1] As a chess player in Britain, Pritchard had some successes, beating British grandmasters Jonathan Penrose and Tony Miles, winning the Southern Counties Championship, and winning multiple Battle of Britain Chess Competitions—an organisation for which he was president.

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.