Leonard Barden

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Leonard William Barden (born August 20, 1929 in Croydon , London ) is a British chess player , columnist and author .

Life

The son of a garbage collector studied at Balliol College , Oxford. In 1951/52 and 1957/58 he took 4th place at the Hastings chess tournament . In 1946 he won the British Junior Correspondence Chess Olympiad. In 1954 he was British individual champion together with Alan Phillips . Barden participated with the English national team in the Chess Olympiads in 1952 , 1954 , 1960 and 1962 . He annotated all games of the 1972 World Chess Championship for the BBC . From 1973 to 1978 he co-hosted the annual Master Games on BBC2 . Barden has published more than twenty other books since his first book, A Guide to Chess Openings (1957).

Barden is the longest-serving chess columnist in the world. He has been writing for The Guardian since September 1955, for the Evening Standard since 1956 and for the Financial Times since 1974 . In his Guardian column on February 24, 1975, Barden correctly predicted that the then eleven-year-old Garry Kasparov would be world chess champion in 1990.

Remarkable games

Barden described his victory over Weaver W. Adams in Hastings in 1950/51 as his favorite game:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Italian , Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. d4 Bb4 + 7. c3 Be7 8. Nxf7 Kxf7 9. Qf3 + Ke6 10. De4 Bf8 11. 0–0 Ne7 12. f4 c6 13. fxe5 Kd7 14. Be2 Ke8 15. c4 Nc7 16. Nc3 Be6 17. Bg5 Qd7 18.Rad1 Rc8 19. Bxe7 Qxe7 20. d5 Qc5 + 21. Kh1 cxd5 22. cxd5 Bd7 23. e6 Bb5 24. Qf4 Kd8 25. Bxb5 Nxb5 26.Nxb5 Qxb5 27. d6 1-0

Barden achieved another notable victory at the British Championship in York in 1959 with White against tournament winner Jonathan Penrose , who a year later defeated then world champion Michail Tal :

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Spanish , a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0–0 Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 0–0 8. c3 d6 9. h3 Sa5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 Be6 13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Ng5 Bd7 15. Nf1 Tad8 16. De2 g6 17. Ne3 Bc8 18. a4 c4 19. axb5 axb5 20. Rd1 Rxd1 + 21. Qxd1 Rd8 22. De2 b4 23.Rxa5! Qxa5 24.Qxc4 Rf8 25.Nxf7! Kg7 26.Nf5 +! gxf5 27.Bh6 + Kg6 28.Bxf8 Bxf8 29.Nh8 + Kh6 30. Qxc8 Kg7 31. Qe6 Qa1 + 32.Kh2 Qxb2 33.Bb3 h5 34.Qf7 + Kxh8 35.Qxf8 + 1: 0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Sunnucks, The Encyclopaedia of Chess
  2. ↑ Leonard Bardens results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ^ Leonard Barden Publications
  4. ↑ Paul Chadwich: No move is a good move for the Guardian columnist 63 years in post . The Guardian, December 9, 2018
  5. ↑ Edward Winter: Leonard Barden , Chesshistory.com, 2019
  6. ^ Chess Treasury of the Air, Penguin Books
  7. ↑ Leonard William Barden vs. Weaver Warren Adams as a replayable game on chessgames.com
  8. ↑ Leonard William Barden vs Jonathan Penrose as a replayable game on chessgames.com
personal data
SURNAME Bards, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barden, Leonard William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chess player, columnist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Croydon , London