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Aug-09-04
 | | Chessical: Baruch Harold Wood OBE MSc (1909-1989), founder editor of CHESS magazine in 1935, and Daily Telegraph chess correspondent. His best result in the British Championship was second in 1948. |
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| Nov-27-04 | | WMD: "B.H. continued to publish CHESS throughout the Second World War whilst holding a full-time job as director of a chemical research laboratory. After the War he expanded the retail side of the business, selling chess books and products, and setting up the first tournament bookstalls. He remained owner and editor for 52 years, after which age and failing health forced him to sell to Pergamon Press in 1988." |
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| Feb-09-05 | | nikolaas: http://www.soszynski.btinternet.co.... |
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| Feb-09-05 | | Catfriend: Nice, the <player of the day>'s first name is same as mine! |
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| Feb-09-05 | | WMD: Are you usually called Barry as well? |
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| Feb-09-05 | | Catfriend: <WMD> No, 'cause I don't live in Britain:) Otherwise I daresay I would be! |
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| Feb-09-05 | | Greginctw: are you jewish? i know jews say baruch ata adanoy. |
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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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