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Leonard William Barden | |
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| Born | 20 August 1929 South Croydon, London, England |
| Occupation(s) | chess player, writer, broadcaster, journalist |
Leonard William Barden (born 20 August 1929, in South Croydon, London) is an English chess master, writer, broadcaster, journalist, organizer and promoter. The son of a dustman, he was educated at Whitgift School, South Croydon, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read modern history. Barden learned to play chess at age 11 while in a school shelter during a World War II German air raid. Within a few years he became one of the country's leading juniors.[1] Barden represented England in four Chess Olympiads. He played a major role in the rise of English chess from the 1970s. Barden is a chess columnist for various newspapers. His column in London's Evening Standard was the world's longest-running daily chess column by the same author.
- ^ Anne Sunnucks, The Encyclopaedia of Chess, St. Martin's Press, 1970, p. 20. ISBN 978-0709146971.