Todd Bardwick
Born	1963 (age 60–61)

Todd Bardwick (born 1963) is an American author, chess teacher, and US National Chess Master^[1] from Denver, Colorado. He was recognized by the United States Chess Federation with the highest lifetime title for a chess teacher, Professional Chess Coach (Level V),^[2] for his lifetime work running the Rocky Mountain Chess Camp through the Denver Chess Academy^[3] continuously since 1995.

Publications

• Teaching Chess in the 21st Century (2004),^[4] a training guide for school teachers and chess club sponsors, incorporating standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
• Chess Workbook for Children (2006),^[5] a children's introduction to chess which parallels the chapters of Teaching Chess in the 21st Century. The workbook has been translated and sold in Russia, Korea, and the Czech Republic.
• Chess Strategy Workbook (2010).^[6] It was also translated and sold in Russia.
• From 2002 to 2017, Bardwick wrote "The Chess Detective"^[7] column for Chess Life for Kids, the national chess magazine for children published by the United States Chess Federation.
• From 1993 until the newspaper's closing in 2009, Bardwick wrote the monthly chess column for the Rocky Mountain News^[8] featuring interviews with famous sports stars, chess in the movies, and local, national, and world chess news.