It should actually be "whingeing Pom" (capital P on the Pom).

To "whinge" is to complain about something and "Pom" is a slightly derogatory term for an English person.

<Having traced a copy of "The Jew of Chamant", a novel which G.H.D. Gossip brought out in 1898 under the pseudonym Ivan Trepoff, Frederick S. Rhine (Park Ridge, IL, USA) has sent us a photostat of the complete work. He comments:

‘It is a vile book, virulently anti-Semitic but also very anti-Catholic and with negative references to South Americans, American Indians, a [...], atheists, socialists and Romanians.>

Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

A report in the British Chess Magazine in 1889 observed that Gossip suffered from great nervousness that prevented him from fully displaying his abilities at chess tournaments, where he had to stop his ears "to keep out the low hum inseparable from a large concourse of people". (Quoted in G.H. Diggle, "The Master Who Never Was", British Chess Magazine (January 1969), at pp. 2-3.) Bird likewise wrote that minor distractions that he would not even notice would "drive ... Gossip to despair". (Henry Bird, Chess History and Reminiscences, 1893, pp. 240-41.) The BCM commentator accordingly believed that Gossip "would make a good stand in a single encounter with men who are much higher in the tournament than he is". (Diggle)

Excellent work! Read, printed and placed with my copy of The Chess-Player's Manual.

Thanks! Yes, I've done many. I haven't gone into nearly as much depth on anyone else as I have on Gossip. The Hugh Myers article was also originated by me and almost entirely written by me. I have done far more work on Bobby Fischer than anyone else has, but I've still only done about 20% of the edits on that very heavily edited page. On my Wikipedia user page, http://bit.ly/2uhRaS I write:

I am particularly proud of my articles First-move advantage in chess, George H. D. Gossip, and Swindle (chess). The first two of these have been promoted to Featured Article, the highest rating on Wikipedia. Only about 2,700 of the 3.1 million articles in the English Wikipedia are Featured Articles. Of about 3,200 chess-related articles on Wikipedia, these are two of only four Featured Articles.

I have also written articles about the American Chess Quarterly, John Washington Baird, Rosendo Balinas, Jr., the Balogh Defense, Joseph Bertin, the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, Henry Charlick, Chess theory, Istvan Csom, the Czech Defense, the desperado piece, dice chess, G.H. Diggle, the English Defense, Frederick Esling, Edward Freeborough, Ellen Gilbert, Golden Knights (chess), John Grefe, James Grundy (chess player), James Hanham, Carsten Hansen, Robert Hess (chess player), Henry Hosmer, the Immortal losing game, the Irish Gambit, the Italian Game, the Jerome Gambit, Lubomir Kavalek, Kieninger Trap, Atanas Kolev, Bogdan Lalic, Le Palamčde, Anatoly Lein, James A. Leonard, the List of Ethnic Chess Openings (renamed the List of chess openings named after places after surviving a vote for deletion), Napoleon Marache, Mihail Marin, Max Lange Attack, Dragoljub Minić, Leopold Mitrofanov, Hugh Myers, the Norwegian Defense, the Parham Attack, the Peruvian Immortal, Petar Popovic, Arshak Petrosian, the Polish Defense, the Polish Immortal, Charles Ranken, Ilya Smirin, Jeff Sonas, Mihai Suba, William Wayte, White and Black in chess, John G. White, and Michael Wilder; writing most of the article about Fred Reinfeld, which had been a stub; writing almost all of what is now Checkmates in the opening; completely rewriting Chess Player's Chronicle and X-ray (chess); adding a lot of content to Henry Ernest Atkins, Leonard Barden, Bird's Opening, Black Knights' Tango, Boden's mate, Amos Burn, Checkmate, Chess handicap, Jan Hein Donner, Double check, Dunst Opening, Englund Gambit, Larry Evans, Bobby Fischer, Fortress (chess), Glossary of chess, Gisela Kahn Gresser, Hippopotamus Defence, Latvian Gambit, Francis Joseph Lee, David Levy (chess player), Andor Lilienthal, List of world records in chess, Maróczy Bind, Owen's Defence, Passed pawn, Ponziani Opening, Promotion (chess), Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Ortvin Sarapu, Scotch Game, Sisters (Lynne Cheney novel), Gregory Serper, Sicilian Defence, Stalemate, Howard Staunton, Staunton Gambit, Mir Sultan Khan, Touch-move rule, Vienna Game, Wade Defence, John Herbert White, Baruch Harold Wood, World Chess Championship 1972, World Junior Chess Championship, Zugzwang, and Zwischenzug; and contributing to myriad other articles.

Edward Winter, probably the world's foremost chess historian, recently referred to two of my articles in his famous Chess Notes Internet column:

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