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Todd Bardwick (born 1963) is a United States Chess Federation National Chess Master and author. He is a five-time Denver Chess Champion (1992-1996), three-time Denver Chess Club champion (1981-1983), and 1981 Colorado High School chess champion. Bardwick was the Colorado Chess Tour Winner in 1995-1996, beating an International Master to win the award. His father, chess expert Alan Bardwick, taught Todd how to play chess when he was six years old. The Bardwick father-son combination became one of the strongest in Colorado chess history.

Career
Bardwick runs the Chess Academy of Denver where he has been a full-time chess teacher since the late 1990’s. In 1995, he founded the Rocky Mountain Chess Camp, one of the nation’s oldest and largest summer chess camps for children. Bardwick has trained many state and national individual scholastic chess champions and state team chess champions through camps, classes, and private lessons over the years.

As a chess promoter, Bardwick has given annual simultaneous chess exhibitions in Denver area malls since 1996, and was filmed by 60 Minutes giving a simultaneous exhibition for Mensa International members at their 2008 National Convention that aired on CBS Sunday Morning in 2009. Bardwick hosts Family Chess Knight at the Pepsi Center for the Colorado Avalanche hockey games and the Denver Nuggets basketball games where he finishes the presentation by doing the Knight’s Tour, blindfolded, for the crowd while giving away prizes to children in attendance.

Bardwick was President of Colorado State Chess Association from 2004 to 2006.

Publications
Bardwick is one of the leading master level chess teachers in the United States. His chess curriculum taught in schools throughout the country.

From 1993 until the newspaper’s closing in 2009, Bardwick wrote the monthly chess column for the Rocky Mountain News featuring interviews with famous sports stars, chess in the movies, and local, national, and world chess news.

He is the author of Teaching Chess in the 21st Century (2004) ISBN 0-9761962-0-4, a training guide for school teachers and chess club sponsors, incorporating standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The nation’s leading chess teacher, Bruce Pandolfini, gave the book a very positive review at Chess Café.

In 2006, Bardwick published Chess Workbook for Children ISBN 978-0-9761962-1-1, a best-selling children’s introduction to chess which parallels the chapters of Teaching Chess in the 21st Century.

In 2010, Bardwick published Chess Strategy Workbook ISBN 978-0-9761962-2-8, a best-selling book that teaches how to pick up clues in the position, evaluate the different types of advantages in chess, and how chess masters apply chess strategies to their games.

Bardwick is also published in state educational publications and speaks at state and national education conventions promoting chess as a part of an elementary school mathematics curriculum.

In 2002 Bardwick starting writing The Chess Detective column for Chess Life for Kids, the national chess magazine for children published by the [United States Chess Federation].

Bardwick has also written many instructional chess columns for the Colorado Chess Informant, published by the Colorado State Chess Association. One of the more notable columns, Oscars for Chess on the Big Screen, published in the April 2004 edition, gained much acclaim and is referenced by Grandmaster and world champion contender, Nigel Short, in a column published in The Daily Telegraph at Chessbase.

Bardwick is also a well-known expert in the French Defence, with analysis published in Play the French (New Edition) by IM John L. Watson (1996) - pages 47-48 and Inside Chess magazine, April 15, 1996, pages 29-30.

Notable Games
Mr. Bardwick was a participant in the longest Colorado game between masters: 143 moves taking 12 hours ending in a draw between David Lucky and Todd Bardwick.

White: SM David Lucky (Gliksman) (2459) Black: NM Todd Bardwick (2210) September 5, 1995, Round 4, Colorado Open

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ndf3 Qb6 8.g3 cxd4 9.cxd4 Bb4+ 10.Kf2 g5 11.h3 gxf4 12.Bxf4 f6 13.Kg2 Be7 14.Rh2 Nf8 15.Kh1 Bd7 16.exf6 Bxf6 17.Rd2 O-O-O 18.Rc1 Be8 19.Rc5 a6 20.Qe2 Kd7 21.Ne5+ Bxe5 22.Bxe5 Nxe5 23.Qxe5 Ng6 24.Qg7+ Kd6 25.Bg2 Rd7 26.Qf6 Rf8 27.Rxd5+ Kc7 28.Rxd7+ Bxd7 29.Rc2+ Kb8 30.Qg7 Qd6 31.Qxh7 Ne7 32.Qe4 Nd5 33.Qxe5 Qxe5 34.dxe5 Ne3 35.Rd2 Bb5 36.g4 Kc7 37.b3 a5 38.a4 Nxg2 39.axb5 Ne3 40.Rd3 Nd5 41.Rf3 Rb8 42.Rf7+ Kb6 43.Nf3 Rc8 44.g5 Rh8 45.h4 Ne3 46.Kh2 Nf5 47.Kh3 Kxb5 48.Rxb7+ Kc6 49.Rf7 Kd5 50.g6 Ke4 51.Rh7 Rg8 52.Ng5+ Kxe5 53.h5 Rb8 54.Nf3+ Kf4 55.Nd2 Rd8 56.Nc4 Rd3+ 57.Kh2 Rxb3 58.Rf7 Kg5 59.g7 Nh6 60.Rf8 a4 61.Rh8 Rb7 62.Rxh6 Rxg7 63.Rh8 Rc7 64.Ne5 a3 65.Kg3 a2 66.Nf3+ Kf6 67.Ra8 Rc5 68.h6 Kg6 69.Rxa2 Kxh6 70.Kf4 Rf5+ 71.Kg4 Kg7 72.Re2 Kf6 73.Nd4 Re5 74.Rf2+ Kg6 75.Nf3 Re4+ 76.Kg3 Ra4 77.Ne5+ Kg5 78.Rf8 Rb4 79.Kf3 Ra4 80.Ke3 Rb4 81.Nf3+Kg6 82.Nd4 Rb1 83.Kf4 Rf1+ 84.Nf3 Kg7 85.Ra8 Kf6 86.Ra6 Rb1 87.Nd2 Rb7 88.Ne4+ Ke7 89.Nc5 Rb1 90.Ke5 Re1+ 91.Ne4 Kd7 92.Rd6+ Ke7 93.Rxe6+ (start of 50-move draw count) 93…Kd7 94.Rh6 Kc7 95.Kd5 Rd1+ 96.Kc4 Kd7 97.Rg6 Ke7 98.Ra6 Kf7 99.Nc3 Rd2 100.Nd5 Rd1 101.Rd6 Kg7 102.Kc5 Rd2 103.Re6 Kf7 104.Kd6 Rd1 105.Re2 Kg6 106.Ke6 Rg1 107.Nf4+ Kg7 108.Ke7 Rg4 109.Re4 Rg1 110.Re6 Rg5 111.Rf6 Ra5 112.Rg6+ Kh7 113.Rg4 Ra7+ 114.Kf6 Ra6+ 115.Ne6 Rb6 116.Rh4+ Kg8 117.Ra4 Kh7 118.Ra8 Rd6 119.Ra1 Rb6 120.Ra2 Rd6 121.Rh2+ Kg8 122.Rh6 Ra6 123.Kf5 Ra5+ 124.Kg6 Ra6 125.Kh5 Ra1 126.Rf6 Rh1+ 127.Kg6 Rg1+ 128.Ng5 Rg2 129.Re6 Kf8 130.Re1 Rg4 131.Re3 Rg1 132.Kf6 Rf1+ 133.Nf3 Ra1 134.Nd4 Rf1+ 135.Nf5 Rf2 136.Ra3 Ke8 137.Rd3 Rf1 138.Rd2 Rf4 139.Ke5 Rf1 140.Nd6+ Ke7 141.Ra2 Re1+ 142.Ne4 Kf7 143.Ra7+ Kg6 Draw

See A Long Day’s Journey into Knight and Rook and Knight vs. Rook Endgame for articles Bardwick has written about this historic game.

Education
Bardwick graduated from Cherry Creek High School in Englewood, Colorado in 1981.

In 1985 Bardwick graduated top his class from the University of Colorado at Boulder, earning a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering.