No move is a good move for the Guardian columnist 63 years in post | Paul Chadwick

Leonard Barden is enjoying quadrupled readership thanks to rising global interest in chess online

If chess column-writing were ranked, Leonard Barden would surely be grandest of grandmasters. He has written the Guardian’s column every week since September 1955. As well as this, he has supplied a daily chess column to the Evening Standard since 1956 “without a day missed except for Easter Fri/Mon, 25-26 Dec, Aug Bank Holiday”.

Intending to explore reasons for the strong international interest in the Guardian’s coverage of the recent chess world championship held in London, I emailed Barden partly to tap his knowledge. He courteously postponed – “I’ll reply late this evening, am rushed with deadlines right now.”

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