Career
Very little information about him is publicly available. His correspondence with other chess historians as well as prefaces of his books suggest he lives in Switzerland. He writes a regular column on chess history,, and is also a regular columnist for ChessBase.
Started as a bimonthly periodical, and was described by its author, in the first issue (January–February 1982), as "A forum for aficionados to discuss all matters relating to the Royal Pastime".
At the end of 1989, the periodical ceased publication. In 1993, Winter resumed publication of, which appeared, this time, as a syndicated column, in many languages around the world.
From 1998 to 2001, it was published exclusively in New In Chess. Later, it appeared online at the Chess Café website.
Since September 2004, are hosted by the Chess History Center website.
Beginning in 1996, selected collections of have been published in book form. Yasser Seirawan calls Winter "the chess world"s foremost authority on its rich history". William Hartston observed of him: "Edward Winter is probably the most meticulous and diligent researcher and chess writer around.
Winter"s brilliantly scathing style, always adopted in the noble cause of accuracy, give his writings a marvellously entertaining as well as instructive quality."
Winter is noted for his abrasive style in his criticisms of other writers.
Frequent targets include Eric Schiller, Raymond Keene, and Larry Evans. Hans Ree wrote of Winter, " is a just but stern supervisor of chess literature.
Every chess writer in the English language knows: when he makes a mistake in a date, overlooks a mate in an analysis, or sins against the King"s English, he will be flogged by Winter, whose eyes see everything.".