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| Feb-09-05 | | Catfriend: <Greginctw> I am. |
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| Feb-10-05 | | Greginctw: what do you think of this isreali peace thing? i always wondered why the media payed so much attention and i figure jews must be fascinated by this stuff. I Hope there is peace myself. |
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| Feb-10-05 | | Catfriend: I wouldn't like to marr the beautiful pages of this site with the debates springing each time the issue is mentioned... For this we here have RJF's page:) Still, to be polite and to answer the question - the mass-media is perhaps the worst way to understand what happens in the middle-east... |
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Jul-13-06
 | | xenophon: odd that the biography has no mention of the "Chess"magazine-surely Wood's reason to be even on this site. |
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| Jul-13-06 | | weary willy: Barry Wood was a phenomenon. He devoted far more of his life than was good for him to the publication of the magazine and the devlopment of the retail business. In the 1960s, as a keen schoolboy, I took the train across Birmingham to visit the ramshackle and over-crowded premises to spend saved pocket money. Wood was kindness itself, showing me some books he thought might help me and digging out a second-hand copy of one of them. With the current super-abundance of information and explosion in book and magazine publishing, it is hard to remember the paucity of information - and opportunities for tournament chess - of those times |
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| Jul-13-06 | | cyclemath: Ah <weary>, what an Aladdin's cave lay under Sutton Coldfield railway station. We may have bumped into one another back in those days. |
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| Jul-13-07 | | BIDMONFA: Baruch Harold Wood WOOD, Baruch H.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/wood_baruch...
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Jul-13-07
| | xenophon: i see we've been updated this year and "chess"magazine gets a mention |
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| Jun-18-08 | | deputy1: I remember the first time I met B. H.Wood . It was at Spalding 1970 my first chess Congress. He had a book stall there and I bought a few books and Chess magazine's I also went to his shop at Sutton Coldfield Railway station Every thing you think of Chess was there. he also organized British Open chess congresses at seaside towns I played at 2. Congresses one at Southport and one at Tesside Those were the days. John Hamer |
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Sep-21-08
 | | GrahamClayton: Along with being the 1945 British CC champion, Wood from 1946 was the President of the ICCA, before it was reorganised as the ICCF in 1951. He also founded the Postal Chess Club, which folded after his retirement. Source: Tim Harding "64 Great Chess Games - Masterpieces of Postal and Email Chess", Chess Mail, 2002 |
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| Jan-01-09 | | WhiteRook48: this guy's got a weird name. if he wins, he burns his opponent. if he loses, he gets stuck in water. |
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| Jul-13-09 | | brankat: Today marks 100 years of Mr.B.H.Wood's birth. A strong player. A columnist and an editor, a true chess enthusiast. R.I.P. Mr.Wood. |
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| Jul-13-09 | | WhiteRook48: happy birthday |
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| Jan-09-10 | | jerseybob: In the early 70s I bought some second-hand CHESS annuals and still have 'em. Like the bound BCM annuals, they're just an all-round treasure-trove of great chess stuff. |
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| Feb-10-10 | | Cibator: Ah yes, those "Chess" Festivals! Held for a fortnight each summer, in a different seaside town every year (and once in a Butlins holiday camp). Some of those places were subsequently inspired to hold regular annual congresses, Whitby being possibly the best known. Having attended and greatly enjoyed the festival at Teesside in 1973, I was concerned to see no mention in "Chess" of the 1974 one, and wrote to BHW. He sent a nice reply saying because of the time and effort needed to organise the festivals, and the existence by then of so many other regular congresses, he'd decided to pack it in. Fair enough! He'd have been in his mid-sixties by then, and having so arduously worked himself out of that particular job, had undoubtedly earned the right to ease up a bit. |
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| Mar-16-12 | | deputy1: I was at the Teeside Congress in 1973 After i played my game I would help out Barry on his Chess Book stall |
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| Mar-16-12 | | AlanPardew: For free? Slavery over, bro! |
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| Mar-16-12 | | Tired Tim: Ah! The spirit of volunteering is as valued as ever. Let's acknowledge it "BH" made a living of sorts from his punishing working schedule but his heart was genuinely in widening the appeal of chess in UK |
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Apr-16-12
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[Site "Ludlow, England"]
[Date "1935.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "GC Brown"]
[Black "Baruch Harold Wood"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. d4 d5 2. ♘f3 ♘f6 3. e3 e6 4. ♗d3 c5 5. c3 ♘c6 6. ♘bd2 ♗d6 7. e4 dxe4 8. ♘xe4 ♘xe4 9. ♗xe4 ♗d7 10. ♗e3 ♕e7 11. ♕d2 ♖d8 12. ♖d1 O-O 13. ♕c2 h6 14. ♕c1 f5 15. ♗d3 f4 16. dxc5 ♗b8 17. ♗d2 ♕xc5 18. O-O ♕h5 19. ♖fe1 g5 20. h3 g4 21. hxg4 ♕xg4 22. ♗e2 ♕g7 23. c4 e5 24. ♗c3 ♔h8 25. ♕c2 ♖f5 26. ♘h4 ♖g5 27. ♗f1 ♖g8 28. f3 ♗e6 29. ♕e4 ♖h5 
click for larger view30. ♘g6+ ♕xg6 31. ♕xf4 ♔h7 32. ♕d2 e4 33. ♖xe4 ♘e5 34. ♗xe5 ♗xe5 35. f4 ♕xe4 36. ♗d3 ♗d4+ 37. ♔f1 ♖h1# Source: CHESS, Vol 1 No 1 14 September 1935 |
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| Jul-13-13 | | Karpova: Endgame study by Wood from 1951: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/es859... |
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| Jul-13-13 | | DoctorD: That study reminds me of a Benko Gambit style endgame, where it seems to me that eventual maneuvering can reach this sort of position (white to move):
click for larger viewwhere I think (with the caveat that I could of course be wrong; both about reaching this position and the win!) that Black is winning. I'd be interested in analysis by others. |
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| Jul-13-13 | | DoctorD: I went through the main line at the Chesscafe site and it appears to me that the mistake there is 6. .. c4 by Black, which looks premature to me and gives up the win. I don't think my line is even necessary but that Black can continue to press on the K-side and eventually get the bishop to d3 or a similar square, at which point the .. c4 push will win. Again, I welcome analysis. |
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| Jul-15-13 | | DoctorD: A friend of mine recommended FinalGen to analyze this position (start for Wood's study):
click for larger viewand it showed that Black indeed wins after 1. Bc2 and now not 1. .. Kd8 but instead first 1. ... Kb6! 2. Ba4 Be2 3. Be8 Bf3 4. Bf7 Kc7 5. Be6 Kd8 6. Kd2 Ke7 7. Ke3 Bh1 8. Bg8 Kf6 9. Kf4 c4 10. Be6 c3 11. Ke3 Be4 12. Bh3 Ke5 13. Bc8 Bb1 14. Bb7 Bh7 15. Bc6 Be4 16. Bb7 Bxd5 and wins. |
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| May-27-22 | | Nosnibor: According to a report in the 50th Paignton Congress referring to the 1948 Congress section of the top Reserve Tournament the following makes interesting reading. "H. Israel won the top Reserve tournament in which Baruch (Barry) Wood had to retire through illness after the fourth round having scored 2.5 points in the first three. B.H. was accident prone throughout his life and had to retire from many tournaments. A few years later, when controlling one of the first Junior International at the Devon Junior Congress, he crashed his car when turning into the drive of Ron and Rowena Bruce`s house. However, few men did more to further the interests of English chess, especially among the younger generation in post-war years. |
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| Mar-06-25 | | Muttley101: Baruch Wood was running the bookstall at the 1980 British championship in Brighton. Great selection of books, and he was gracious and kind. Anyone who runs a bookstall for a congress deserves kudos- it's a lot of work and travelling, and of course, Baruch Wood deserves recognition for all he did for chess. |
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