Winner of the club championship in 1985 and 1986.

Barry. Hugh. Richards

By Brian Denman

Barry Richards was born on the 5 January 1947 and died in November 1995 whilst out running  at the age of 47

Barry  joined the Hastings chess club in the late 1960s.he played consistently for the club for about 20 years. His most successful years were in the 1980s, Barry won his first club championship in 1985,he repeated this success In 1986

Frank Rhoden, writing in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer said Barry forte seems to have been his end game  ‘Just about the best end-game study specialist in Hastings .’ In 1977 when the Hastings held a short open tournament in the summer Barry was the only player to take any points off the winner Michael Franklin,

in the 1970s Barry had become match captain and in the mid 1980s he was appointed as the club’s chairman. In the early 1980s he played a number of games for the Sussex first team