Baruch Harold Wood

Baruch Wood (center, back), Hoogovens Chess Tournament 1948

Baruch Harold Wood, OBE (BH Wood) (born July 13, 1909 in Sheffield , † April 4, 1989 in Sutton Coldfield ) was an English chess master and author .

Tournament player

Wood won the Warwickshire Championship eight times between 1938 and 1957 . In 1939 he represented England at the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires . He took first place in the tournaments Baarn 1947, Paignton 1954, Whitby 1963, Tórshavn 1967 and Jersey 1975. In 1948 he was second in the British championship in London .

He achieved his best historical rating of 2459 in July 1946.

Also in correspondence chess he was successful: He won the British Championship in 1945. From 1946 to 1951 he was president of the ICCA, a forerunner of the International Correspondence Chess Federation .

He has also been an international referee since 1974 . He was also a co-founder of the Sutton Coldfield Chess Club . He was President of the British Schools Chess Association and the British Universities Chess Association . He represented England when the country became a member of FIDE .

author

Wood founded the British chess magazine Chess in 1935 . He headed this until 1988, when it was taken over by Pergamon Press.

He also wrote for the Daily Telegraph and The Illustrated London News . From 1948 to February 1967 he was responsible for the chess column for the Birmingham Daily Post .

His book Easy Guide to Chess , which appeared for the first time in 1942, was highly regarded and published three times . Other books are World Championship Candidates Tournament 1953 and 100 Victorian Chess Problems (1972).

Private

Wood's daughter Peggy Clarke, son-in-law Peter Hugh Clarke , and sons Christopher, Frank and Philip are and were also strong chess players.

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Baruch Harold Wood on chessgames.com (English)

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1. ↑ Baruch Harold Woods results at Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Chessmetrics Player Profile April 17, 2006 (English)