# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-barden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:40:55.122Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-barden"
name: "Leonard Barden"
slug: "leonard-barden"
description: "Leonard William Barden is an English chess master, writer, broadcaster, journalist, organiser and promoter. The son of a dustman, he was educated at Whitgift School, South Croydon, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. Barden learned to play chess at age 11 while in a school shelter during a World War II German air raid. Within a few years he became one of the country's leading juniors. Barden represented England in four Chess Olympiads. He played a major role in the rise of English chess from the 1970s. Barden is a chess columnist for various newspapers. His column in London's Evening Standard was the world's longest-running daily chess column by the same author."
tagline: "English international chess player, columnist, author, and promoter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1929-08-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.77
  momentum:             0.01555209953343701
  historical:           6.556517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Барден, Леонард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليونارد باردين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Barden"
    title: "Leonard Barden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Barden"
    title: "Leonard Barden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Barden"
    title: "Leonard Barden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%9F"
    title: "ליאונרד בארדן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Barden"
    title: "Leonard Barden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525105"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump