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Edith Elina Helen Winter-Wood was born in
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chess-composition tournament, the first of over two dozen subsequent prizes. Her most celebrated success came in 1893 when she won an international chess-composition tournament against a number of the most notable chess composers of the day. She became the most prolific composer of chess problems in
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of London. Some of these are still considered sound, many are considered elegant, and some are novelties such as letter problems, in which chess pieces have to form the shapes of letters.
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Twentieth Century Retractor, Chess Fantasies, and Letter Problems: Being a Selection of Three Hundred Problems by Mrs. W. J. Baird... Enriched with Shakespearean Quotations
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In the mid 1880s, Baird started composing chess problems and within a few years had gained a reputation in the field. In 1888, she took third prize in a
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who in her day was the most prolific composer of chess problems in the world. She published under her married name as
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the world, with over 2000 problems to her credit. These were published in newspapers such as the
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Seven hundred chess problems, selected from the composition of Mrs. W. J. Baird
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Championship in 1897 and a silver medal in the tournament three times.
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and was sometimes referred to in the press as the "Queen of Chess".
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