Todd Bardwick

Todd Bardwick is a National Chess Master, 5-time Denver Chess Champion, National Tournament Director, and a member of the Colorado Chess Hall of Fame. Bardwick and Senior Master David Lucky played the longest continuous chess game (a 12 hour, 143 move draw) between masters in the United States in the 1995 Colorado Open on September 3-4.

He is nationally known as The Chess Detective ® from his column in Chess Life for Kids magazine (2002 - 2017) and was the Rocky Mountain News Chess Columnist (1993-2009 - when the paper closed).

Bardwick is one of the United State's most experienced chess teachers having taught the game full-time for over 30 years with well over 15,000 chess classes. Many of his students have become state and national chess champions and he has the rare certification as a Professional Chess Coach by the United States Chess Federation. Todd runs the Chess Academy of Denver and founded the Rocky Mountain Chess Camp - one of the oldest Chess Camp for children in the United States.

In 2023, Bardwick won the prestigious Dan Heisman Award for Excellence in Chess Instruction from the United States Chess Federation.

His best-selling books have been translated into Russian, Korean, and Czechoslovakian, and are sold throughout the world.