Jeremy Gaige

{{Short description|American chess archivist and journalist}}

{{Infobox chess biography

| country = United States

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|10|9}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|2|19|1927|10|9}}

| death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

}}

Jeremy Gaige (October 9, 1927 in New York – February 19, 2011){{citation

| last=Gaige | first=Jeremy

| year=1987 | title= Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography

| publisher=McFarland & Company

| isbn=0-19-280049-3

| page=131}} was an American chess archivist and journalist. He was best known for his work collecting and publishing tournament results and basic biographical data on chess players. Hooper and Whyld called his works "scrupulously written" and "a source of reference for chess journalists and writers all over the world".{{citation

| last=Hooper | first=David | author-link=David Vincent Hooper

| last2=Whyld | first2=Kenneth | author-link2=Kenneth Whyld

| year=1992 | title=The Oxford Companion to Chess | edition=2nd

| publisher=Oxford University Press

| isbn=0-19-280049-3

| page=149}} Gaige's 1969 book, A Catalog of Chess Players and Problemists, contained about 3000 names with dates and places of birth and death. Chess writers soon began sending him information, and Chess Personalia (1987), his greatly expanded follow up, listed about 14,000 names with dates and places of birth and death, along with references to sources of biographical information.

He died of emphysema on 19 February 2011, at his home in Philadelphia.[http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20110310_Jeremy_Gaige__83__chess_expert__newspaperman.html Jeremy Gaige, 83, chess expert, newspaperman]: obituary by Sally A. Downey, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10 March 2011

Gaige graduated from Phillips Academy and Columbia College in 1951, after serving in the US Army Medical Corps.{{Cite web|date=Summer 2012|title=Obituaries|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/summer12/obituaries|access-date=August 13, 2020|website=Columbia College Today|archive-date=January 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125210828/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/summer12/obituaries|url-status=dead}}