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Question about the 1973 Cooke/Dwek/Martyn match

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Wednesday, 6 April 2011, at 4:25 p.m.

In Response To: Question about the 1973 Cooke/Dwek/Martyn match (Timothy Chow)

A post-mortem tribute to Barclay Cooke (two separate articles, one by BG Times writer Les B. Levi and one by Barclay's brother, sportswriter and sportscaster Bob Cooke) appeared in Backgammon Times v2#2 (Spring 1982). There it says:

In the late 1970's, aggravated by a back ailment that left him nearly crippled, Cooke chose to stay close to home. On November 29, 1981, he died of a stroke at his home in Englewood, New Jersey.

(I recall seeing Cooke at the World Amateur Championships. I only attended that event twice, 1979 and 1982, thus it had to have been in 1979. He didn't seem particularly immobile then so his debilitating condition must have arisen later that year.)

Regarding whether this format was ever used again, Levi also reports:

Diagnosed as a cancer victim, Walt (Cooke) was given only two years to live. By late 1973 he was still able to play; the American team won comfortably 73-64 after forty games. By the following year, in the return match, Walt was in serious pain. The American team lost (the rematch).

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