Tallahassee Democrat Tallahassee, Florida Tuesday, March 01, 1994 - Page 8
CLAIM TO FAME: A ranked player in the United States Chess Federation, Corden recently won the Tallahassee Chess Association championship tournament. … In addition to several regional victories, he also scored one of his biggest career wins over Vassily Smyslov, a former world champion from the former Soviet Union. … Corden also represented the English national team when he was a student at Oxford University during the 1970s.
QUOTING: “At the Siegen Olympiad in 1970, I watched Bobby Fischer play Boris Spassky, just before their famous match in Reykjavik. I never saw such excitement over a chess game — there were cameras and spectators everywhere, climbing over tables to get a view.”