Happy Birthday, Leonard
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Leonard has informed us that the Evening Standard is discontinuing his online chess column at the end of this month. That is so sad and an act of utter vandalism.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
On 30 December Edward Winter reported in C.N. 9022 (http://www.chesshistory.com/winter):
"Mr Barden informs us that the Evening Standard has now agreed to prolong his chess column for a month, until the end of January 2015, to give time for a longer-term solution to be sought."
"Mr Barden informs us that the Evening Standard has now agreed to prolong his chess column for a month, until the end of January 2015, to give time for a longer-term solution to be sought."
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
That sounds like good news. I wonder also what it would take to get the chess column restored to the printed version of the Evening Standard, which is available free at railway stations. Trains can take a long time without any chess or bridge ...
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Leonard wrote today to say the column was continuing. I was all a misunderstanding.
To get the column into the printed Evening Standard.
Possibly 1000 independent letters might do the trick.
Or work out a way for the newspaper to make income from people entering competitions.
To get the column into the printed Evening Standard.
Possibly 1000 independent letters might do the trick.
Or work out a way for the newspaper to make income from people entering competitions.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Happy birthday Mr Barden
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Leonard Barden has confirmed that his on-line "Evening Standard" chess column has been saved: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/#9041._Mannerism
The column can be read at http://www.standard.co.uk/staticpage/chess/
The column can be read at http://www.standard.co.uk/staticpage/chess/
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Stewart is correct:
"Possibly 1000 independent letters might do the trick."
Not emails, they can be deleted with a flick of the wrist.
Letters have to be opened, read and filed away by someone.
On another note.
I recently read that the longest running chess column was Hermann Helms (1870-1963)
who wrote a chess column for 62 years, from 1893 to 1955, in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
http://www.chess.com/article/view/records-in-chess
I thought Mr Barden had the record or was the Helms column paused during the
first and second World Wars and was not continuous.
"Possibly 1000 independent letters might do the trick."
Not emails, they can be deleted with a flick of the wrist.
Letters have to be opened, read and filed away by someone.
On another note.
I recently read that the longest running chess column was Hermann Helms (1870-1963)
who wrote a chess column for 62 years, from 1893 to 1955, in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
http://www.chess.com/article/view/records-in-chess
I thought Mr Barden had the record or was the Helms column paused during the
first and second World Wars and was not continuous.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Have a look at this article, Geoff:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/barden-on- ... ess-column
The link was posted earlier in the thread. Re-posting it now for those who missed it first time round.
http://en.chessbase.com/post/barden-on- ... ess-column
The link was posted earlier in the thread. Re-posting it now for those who missed it first time round.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Geoff >Not emails, they can be deleted with a flick of the wrist. Letters have to be opened, read and filed away by someone.
That is only partially true. We have generated such pressure groups, using emails, and that had the required response. Suggesting 1000 would be needed is probably excessive as the Evenng Standard is a smaller newspaper.
5000 to get a dedicated chess series on terrestrial TV?
That is only partially true. We have generated such pressure groups, using emails, and that had the required response. Suggesting 1000 would be needed is probably excessive as the Evenng Standard is a smaller newspaper.
5000 to get a dedicated chess series on terrestrial TV?
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Cheers Chris.
Missed it fiorst time around. Good Article
Missed it fiorst time around. Good Article
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Chessbase
According to our calculations Leonard Barden has been at it for sixty years and seven months – making him the longest running uninterrupted weekly chess column in the world and in history
Leonard's Evening Standard column is quite possibly the longest ever running daily column by a single journalist in any field of journalism
Any postings on here represent my personal views
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Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard
Ok a tad early this is about the article doh.Carl Hibbard wrote:Happy Birthday Leonard have a good one.
Cheers
Carl Hibbard
Carl Hibbard