# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-whyld
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:17:53.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-whyld"
name: "Ken Whyld"
slug: "ken-whyld"
description: "Kenneth Whyld was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author of The Oxford Companion to Chess, a single-volume chess reference work in English."
tagline: "British chess writer (1926–2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-03-06"
deathDate: "2003-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.13736533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Кеннет Вайлд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كينيث وايلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Whyld"
    title: "Kenneth Whyld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Whyld"
    title: "Ken Whyld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Whyld"
    title: "Ken Whyld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Whyld"
    title: "Ken Whyld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Whyld"
    title: "Ken Whyld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Whyld"
    title: "Ken Whyld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B4"
    title: "Кеннет Уайлд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Whyld"
    title: "Kenneth Whyld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82"
    title: "Уайлд, Кеннет"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Whyld"
    title: "Ken Whyld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1738681"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump