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Raymond Keene
Keene 
Photograph copyright (c) 2003 Bo Zaunders
courtesy of keeneonchess.com.
 

Number of games in database: 1,909
Years covered: 1960 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2455
Highest rating achieved in database: 2510
Overall record: +1018 -180 =665 (72.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 46 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Reti System (148) 
    A04 A05 A06
 King's Indian (119) 
    E62 E80 E63 E69 E94
 English (73) 
    A15 A13 A14 A16 A12
 Nimzo Indian (72) 
    E30 E41 E42 E49 E26
 Grunfeld (53) 
    D91 D85 D79 D74 D76
 Queen's Gambit Declined (49) 
    D31 D35 D37 D30 D06
With the Black pieces:
 Robatsch (121) 
    B06
 Sicilian (113) 
    B32 B22 B25 B30 B78
 Pirc (99) 
    B09 B08 B07
 King's Indian (69) 
    E83 E73 E94 E62 E92
 French Defense (58) 
    C18 C05 C00 C02 C09
 Queen's Pawn Game (56) 
    A45 A40 A41 A50 D02
Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Keene vs Miles, 1976 1-0
   S J Hutchings vs Keene, 1973 0-1
   Keene vs V Kovacevic, 1973 1-0
   Keene vs Robatsch, 1971 1-0
   Keene vs E Fielder, 1964 1-0
   Keene vs Briant, 1988 1-0
   M Basman vs Keene, 1981 0-1
   Keene vs S Kerr, 1979 1-0
   E Jimenez Zerquera vs Keene, 1974 0-1
   Keene vs J N Sugden, 1961 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Strasbourg Open (1973)
   British Championship (1971)
   Lugano Olympiad qual-1 (1968)
   Slater Young Masters (1968)
   5th Lloyds Bank Masters Open (1981)
   Capablanca Memorial-B (1974)
   Alicante (1977)
   Sydney IM (1979)
   Hanover (1976)
   Hastings 1968/69 (1968)
   Esbjerg (1981)
   Commonwealth Championship (1983)
   Stevenson Memorial (1965)
   British Championship (1982)
   Reykjavik (1976)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   0ZeR0's collected games volume 46 by 0ZeR0
   0ZeR0's collected games volume 45 by 0ZeR0
   50 K Players of Yesteryear by fredthebear
   ANNOTATED HUMAN GAMES by rpn4
   ANNOTATED+ GAMES by Patca63
   ANNOTATED HUMAN GAMES by gambitfan
   ANNOTATED+ GAMES by kafkafan
   ANNOTATED HUMAN GAMES by Rickdudester
   franskfranz's 1. Nf3 by franskfranz

GAMES ANNOTATED BY KEENE: [what is this?]
   Leko vs Kramnik, 2004
   Leko vs Kramnik, 2004
   Leko vs Kramnik, 2004
   Kramnik vs Leko, 2004
   Topalov vs Kramnik, 2006
   >> 406 GAMES ANNOTATED BY KEENE

RECENT GAMES:
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   Keene vs A Pleasants (Aug-??-12) 0-1, exhibition

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RAYMOND KEENE
(born Jan-29-1948, 77 years old) United Kingdom

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Raymond Denis Keene won the British Chess Championship in 1971, and was the first player from England to earn a Grandmaster norm, in 1974. In 1976 he became the second Englishman (following Tony Miles) to be awarded the Grandmaster title, and he was the second British chess player to beat an incumbent World Chess Champion (following Jonathan Penrose's defeat of Mikhail Tal in 1960). He represented England in eight Chess Olympiads.

Keene retired from competitive play in 1986 at the age of thirty-eight, and is now better known as a chess organiser, columnist and author. He was involved in organising the 1986, 1993 and 2000 World Chess Championships; and the 1997, 1998 and 1999 Mind Sports Olympiads; all held in London. Keene was the chess correspondent of The Times from 1985 to November 2019, and is a prolific author, having written over 100 books on chess. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to chess in 1985.

Keene is a controversial figure in the chess world. He has been accused of plagiarism, and his business dealings and the quality of his chess books, columns and articles have also been criticised.

Chess career
Keene won the London and British Under 18 Championships (shared with Brian Denman) in 1964, and represented England at the 1965 and 1967 World Junior Chess Championships, held in Barcelona and Jerusalem respectively. At the latter event he took the silver medal, finishing behind Julio Kaplan. He was educated at Dulwich College and Trinity College, Cambridge (where he studied modern languages and graduated with an MA). Keene wrote his first chess book whilst studying at Cambridge, and won the British Chess Championship at Blackpool 1971. As a result, he was awarded the International Master title in 1972, the first English player to achieve this since Jonathan Penrose in 1961. In 1974, Keene married Annette, the sister of International Master David S. Goodman. They have one son, Alexander, born in 1991.

Keene was the second British player to meet the necessary requirements to become a Grandmaster. He was pipped to the post by a few months by Tony Miles, the first British Grandmaster in 1976. Both he and Miles won financial prizes for this feat.

Miles and Keene were at the forefront of the English chess explosion of the next 20 years, and they were followed by other British grandmasters such as Michael Stean, John Nunn, Jon Speelman and Jonathan Mestel.

Keene represented England for nearly two decades in international team events, beginning with the 1966 Chess Olympiad in Havana at age 18. He followed with the next seven straight Olympiads: Lugano 1968, Siegen 1970, Skopje 1972, Nice 1974, Haifa 1976, Buenos Aires 1978, and La Valletta 1980. His individual performances at Lugano and Haifa merited bronze medals (although individual medals were not, in fact, awarded at Haifa) and he was undefeated in three Olympiads – these two and Siegen. His later performances, though, were less impressive, with just two draws from four games at Buenos Aires and losses in both his games at La Valletta.

He represented England four times at the Students' Olympiad (Örebro 1966, Harrachov 1967, Ybbs 1968 and Dresden 1969) and four times at the European Team Championships (Bath 1973, Moscow 1977, Skara 1980 and Plovdiv 1983). At Skara he won both a bronze medal with the team and the individual gold medal for the best score on his board.

Keene won the 1971 British championship and shared second place on three occasions, in 1968, 1970 and 1972. His tournament victories include Hastings Challengers 1966, Slater Challenge Southend 1968, Johannesburg 1973, Woolacombe 1973, Capablanca Memorial (Master Group) 1974, Alicante 1977, Sydney 1979, Dortmund 1980, Barcelona 1980, Lloyds Bank Masters 1981, Adelaide 1983 and La Valletta 1985.

Playing style
Keene's playing style tended toward the strategically original and positional. Strongly influenced by Aron Nimzowitsch and Richard Réti, he accordingly preferred hypermodern openings such as the Modern Defence, Nimzo-Indian Defence and King's Indian Defence.

Chess-related work

Organiser
Keene worked as a chess event organiser. He was the originator and organiser of the annual Staunton memorial chess tournaments, one of the few regular events for masters held in London. The Oxford Companion comments: "By a combination of ability and shrewdness, Keene has attracted considerable sponsorship and has proved himself capable of efficient and rapid organisation of chess events".p196

Keene brought Victor Korchnoi and Garry Kasparov together for their 1983 Candidates' semi-final match in London as part of the 1984 World Championship cycle; the semi-final match between Vasily Smyslov and Zoltán Ribli was also played at the same site. He organised the 1984 Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World match in London within two weeks, enabling the event to go ahead on time after the previous plans had fallen through, described by John Nunn as "a magnificent organisational achievement at such short notice."

Keene has also been involved in organising several World Championship finals matches. He arranged for the first half of the World Chess Championship 1986 return match between Kasparov and Karpov in London. The match, however, made a loss for the British Chess Federation (BCF) and, for reasons never clarified, he resigned from his position in the BCF shortly afterwards. He organised the 1993 PCA World Championship match between Kasparov and Nigel Short in London, for which he was one of the official commentators along with Grandmasters Jonathan Speelman and Daniel King. He was the instrumental force behind 'Brain Games', which organized the World Championship match in 2000 between Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik. Following the match, however, he retained the trophy in lieu of money he believed he was owed by the collapse of Brain Games: Kramnik did not receive it until 2008. Brain Games later collapsed in controversial circumstances.

Columnist
Keene became the chess columnist of The Spectator in March 1977. His column was terminated in September 2019, when he was replaced by Luke McShane. Following the retirement of Harry Golombek, Keene was appointed the chess correspondent of The Times in 1985. In November 2019 he was replaced by David Howell. In December 1996 he became the chess columnist of the Sunday Times. In August 2017 he was replaced by David Howell.

Television personality
Keene has appeared on television. He covered the world championships of 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1993, and 1995 for BBC 2, CHANNEL 4, and Thames TV. In the "Duels of the Mind" series which aired on the UK ITV network, Keene, along with South African author and civil rights campaigner Donald Woods, discussed and analysed what Keene regarded as the twelve best chess games ever played.

Magazine editor
From 1978 to 1982, Keene was the editor of Modern Chess Theory, a magazine on openings which included contributions from the Soviet world champions Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Mikhail Tal.

Author
Keene claims to be "the author of 140 books on chess". He was the Chess Advisor to Batsford. His early books such as Howard Staunton (1975, with R. N. Coles) often dealt with players with styles similar to his own. Aron Nimzowitsch: a Reappraisal (1974) is much admired and was revised and translated into Russian in 1986,1 with an algebraic edition published in English in 1999. In 1989, he and Nathan Divinsky wrote Warriors of the Mind, an attempt to determine the 64 best chess players of all time. The statistical methods used have not met with wide approval, but the player biographies and games were regarded by one book as providing a good overviewbut also incurred criticism for inaccuracy. Much of Keene's later work has attracted criticism for sloppiness, plagiarism and the habit of copying passages, including errors, from one book to another.

Controversies
Allegations of plagiarism
Keene has on several occasions been accused of plagiarism. In 1993 John Donaldson accused Keene of committing plagiarism in The Complete Book of Gambits (Batsford, 1992). Donaldson wrote "Just how blatant was the plagiarism? Virtually every word and variation in the four and a half pages devoted to Lisitsin's Gambit in Keene's book was stolen." After Keene refused to pay Donaldson a requested $200 for the use of his material, Keene's American publisher Henry Holt and Company ended up paying Donaldson $3,000.

In 2008, Keene was accused of plagiarising a column by Edward Winter for a piece published in The Spectator and subsequently on the website Chessville and on page 129 of his book The Official Biography of Tony Buzan. More than a third of the article was taken directly from Winter's column.

In 2013, Winter reflected on plagiarism in chess: "a particularly sordid corner of the chess world which will never be eradicated without maximum public exposure". He went on: "The latest instance is the discovery by Justin Horton that material from the first volume of Kasparov's My Great Predecessors series has been misappropriated by Raymond Keene in The Spectator."

Private Eye describes the plagiarism as involving "substantial amounts of text lifted from chess books, mainly Kasparov's but also other authors". One case involves Keene's notes to a game between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, which he annotated for The Times on 8 December 2011 and The Spectator on 5 January 2013.

These alleged plagiarisms, which Edward Winter calls "eye-popping" are catalogued at "a convenient 'plagiarism index' which is being kept updated".

Tony Miles
In 1985, Keene received £1,178 from the BCF for being Tony Miles' second at the Interzonal in Tunis; however, he had not actually been Miles' second but accepted the money and shared it with Miles. Miles had initially agreed to this plan but eventually told the BCF about it in 1987. Two months later, Keene resigned his posts as BCF Publicity Director and FIDE delegate. Keene said that his resignation was for different reasons, and that he was "furious" at his treatment after organising numerous events from 1983 to 1987.

Brain Games Network
In 2000, Keene's former brother-in-law David Levy accused him of deceiving the directors of their company Mind Sports Olympiad Ltd (MSO) by setting up a rival company, Brain Games Network plc (BGN), without their knowledge and using £50,000 of MSO Ltd money to do so. Levy further alleged that Keene changed his story several times as to the purpose of the payment and the reasons why the new company had been set up. He complained that shares in the new company were held by Keene and an associate (Don Morris) but not by the company for which they had been supposed to be working, nor any of its directors other than themselves. Levy wrote:

As one would expect, our original investors were equally astounded at the news and extremely angry at Keene. They had by now invested £1.5 million (approximately $2.25 million at that time) partly or largely on the basis of their faith in Keene and myself. Now they had learned that one of their two key consultants, the one with money-raising skills, had been working to set up a rival company.

Nothing, however, was proven against Keene (who had swiftly paid an identical sum, i.e. £50,000 to MSO, making the subsequent explanation that this constituted a personal loan from himself) and his new company went on to organise the world championship match later that same year. (It was at this time that Private Eye started referring to him as "The Penguin", a nickname he had first acquired in 1966.)

Levy further criticised Keene for selling three of his own companies to BGN for £220,000 despite their being "virtually worthless". The three companies had between them "a total capital and reserves of only £2,300". At much the same time, according to Levy, BGN purchased a web site and two domain names from Chess and Bridge Limited. However, they made the purchase in two stages. The first of these stages was its sale to Giloberg Finance Limited, owned by Keene's associate Alan Lubin: the second was the immediate sale of the same items, by Giloberg, to BGN. The first sale was for approximately £60,000 (in fact $100,000) and the second was for £290,000, hence making Giloberg "an instant profit of approximately £230,000" and raising the question of why BGN should have paid a sum much greater than the original vendors considered the items were worth.

BGN collapsed in controversial circumstances. Shareholders were unhappy that sums amounting to at least £675,000 had been paid to directors in "fees and payments" despite the company swiftly becoming insolvent. Investors were also unhappy that Keene and Lubin had acquired 88% of the company "for a song" even though the remaining 12% had been sold for around £3 million.

During the course of the 2000 Braingames World Championship Keene was accused of heavy-handed behaviour in having journalist John Henderson removed from the press room with the assistance of bouncers.

Korchnoi
Viktor Korchnoi alleged that when acting as his second in the 1978 World Championship match, Keene broke his contract by writing a book about the match (which appeared three days after the match finished) having specifically signed an agreement "not to write, compile or help to write or compile any book during the course of the match". Korchnoi commented: "Mr Keene betrayed me. He violated the contract. It was clear that while Mr Keene was writing one book and then another, Mr Stean was doing his work for him."

Attempts to defend Keene were rebutted by Michael Stean's mother, who stated that she was in a position to know what was in Keene's contract since she herself had typed it. Keene, she claimed, had signed this despite having already negotiated a contract with Batsford to write a book about the match. She described "a premeditated and deliberate plan to deceive" and noted that Keene's conduct had come under suspicion during the match.

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. N Totton vs Keene 0-1381960Bromley tourneyE00 Queen's Pawn Game
2. Keene vs J N Sugden  1-0241960Match game 8B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
3. Keene vs J N Sugden 1-0261960Dulwich CollegeA12 English with b3
4. H T Jones vs Keene  0-1241960Exhibition gameC55 Two Knights Defense
5. Keene vs J N Sugden 1-0191960Dulwich CollegeB98 Sicilian, Najdorf
6. J N Sugden vs Keene  0-1481960MatchD22 Queen's Gambit Accepted
7. J N Sugden vs Keene 0-1341960MatchD22 Queen's Gambit Accepted
8. J N Sugden vs Keene 0-1311960MatchC16 French, Winawer
9. Keene vs J N Sugden 1-0261960Match game, ClaphamA12 English with b3
10. Keene vs J N Sugden 1-0281960Match game 1, ClaphamB23 Sicilian, Closed
11. Keene vs J N Sugden 1-0261961MatchD47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
12. Keene vs L Bauer  1-0271961Clapham Common CCA70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
13. S Leff vs Keene 0-1361961Clapham Common CCA20 English
14. J N Sugden vs Keene 1-0261961MatchA55 Old Indian, Main line
15. Keene vs J N Sugden 1-0341961Match game 21, Dulwich CollegeA17 English
16. J Regruto vs Keene  0-1331961Clapham Common CC ChampsA47 Queen's Indian
17. T D Baldwin vs Keene  0-1351961Olympia ExhibitionC17 French, Winawer, Advance
18. G K Sandiford vs Keene 0-1271961Dulwich CollegeB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
19. A Ogus vs Keene  ½-½371961School matchC18 French, Winawer
20. G K Sandiford vs Keene  0-1521961Match, game 5B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
21. Keene vs J N Sugden 1-0351961OlympiaA67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
22. J N Sugden vs Keene 0-1301961Match game 6, BeckenhamE40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3
23. Keene vs J N Sugden 1-0251961Match game 6, Bognor RegisD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
24. Keene vs Orly 1-0101961Clapham Common CCB02 Alekhine's Defense
25. J N Sugden vs Keene 0-1291961MatchE40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3
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Dec-18-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Hi, Ray. I guess you've been following the FIDE World Cup results.

In the past two years (after a ten year break) Kamsky has a 3 win and two draw record against Anand. Overall, historically, they are almost dead even against each other.

I know this is very subjective, especially after only five recent games, but do you think it possible that Kamsky is more deserving to play a match against Kramnik than Anand?

Dec-18-07  whiskeyrebel: GM Keene, I'm halfway through your Petrosian book. It's so good I'm savoring it like a fine bottle. Having read your works on Stein and Nimzo I expected it would be a real treat. You have such a knack for helping we readers understand these giants through their play as opposed to mere analysis. Thanks!
Dec-31-07  fred lennox: ill add to the compliment to the Petrosian book- very enjoyable. i remember schiller said he would rather be given new ideas on books rather than criticism on the ones he wrote. Makes sense to me, not that i have anything negative to say on your petrosian, so ill give it a swing. Over a few years ive heard chernev's book on capablanca's 50 great endgames complimented by players by simply passing by them. I wonder why this hasn't caught fire. Endgame books, even the best, do not escape a certain dryness, and this is a common objection. The richness and beauty of openings is easily demonstrative by how it influences the middlegame and even endgame. the beauty of chernev's book is that it takes the artifical and dryness out of endgames, because it includes the earlier part of the game. i know you know this, im just telling how the book gets praised. You may of noticed in the bookstore endgame books are more common than ever. the rod is hot for some such books- great endgames by the following players - Botvinnik, Smyslov, Petrosian Fishser or Karpov- Great endgames by world champions after Capa probably in two volumes. Ahlekine, Tal Kasparov may not have quite the reputation but this right away, i believe, underrates their endgame strength. or great endgames in the last 25 years and so forth. another interessting book is Kasparov playing the queen indian. I don't mean to be throwing stones at "the greatest" i simply find it odd- my impression which may be wrong- is the queen indian was a bit of a bug bear to Kasp despite the qi being the most complicated reply to d4. For example, Karpov beat Kasparov more times against the qi than any other opening. Ribli, whose whole game is orientated around the qi complex even against e4 never lost to Kasporav. Never won either. but this is no compliment to a Kasparov. Note, Kasparov had no difficulty with Anderssen. None of this may interest you from a practical viewpoint but i thank you for reading it.
Dec-31-07  KingG: <fred lennox> <another interessting book is Kasparov playing the queen indian. I don't mean to be throwing stones at "the greatest" i simply find it odd- my impression which may be wrong- is the queen indian was a bit of a bug bear to Kasp despite the qi being the most complicated reply to d4. For example, Karpov beat Kasparov more times against the qi than any other opening. Ribli, whose whole game is orientated around the qi complex even against e4 never lost to Kasporav. Never won either. but this is no compliment to a Kasparov. Note, Kasparov had no difficulty with Anderssen.>

My impression is that in the 80's Kasparov was something of a Queen's Indian killer. He scored a huge number of impressive wins using the Petrosian system, which became extremely popular mainly due to his influence. And in fact, in his whole career, Kasparov only lost twice in this variation, once to Petrosian(a game in which Kasparov had a winning postion), and once to Korchnoi(the only time Korchnoi has ever beaten Kasparov). In addition, Kasparov lost once to Karpov in a mainline 4.g3 QID(in their first match in 1984), and once in a Nimzo/QID hybrid. Among Kasparov's many brilliant wins in the Petrosian system, we can find:

Kasparov vs R Akesson, 1980
Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981
Kasparov vs Fedorowicz, 1981
Kasparov vs Najdorf, 1982
Kasparov vs Portisch, 1983
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1984

In addition, Kasparov also sometimes played the 4.g3 mainline, producting games like Kasparov vs Marjanovic, 1980. Here is a list of all Kasparov's wins in the QID: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

It's true that Kasparov never beat Ribli, but only two of their games resembled Queen's Indians, and they were both fairly short draws, so i'm not sure if that is enough evidence to go on. In comparaison, Kasparov played Andersson far more often.

I certainly agree that a book should be written on Kasparov's games in the Queen's Indian, but personally i think it should be about his brilliant victories rather than his few isolated defeats.

Dec-31-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Ron: Kasparov discusses the Queen's Indian Defense in his book on opening developments: _Revolution in the 70s._
Dec-31-07  fred lennox: well i was wrong on that. of course Kasparov was a great player with the Qi. That karpov beat him more times with it than any opening as white just struck me as odd but i put far too much weight on it. Anyways i would never suggest a book that wasn't favorable to the master, Kasparov or anyone else. If i did i apologies.
Jan-04-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Hi Ray, the Hastings tournament is coming up. As a player and a spectator, I was just wondering if you had any particularly interesting memories of this event over the years.

I remember reading somewhere that in the 60's and 70's, the Soviets would often send a pair of high level GMs to this event, a Korchnoi, a Karpov, et al. With the travel restrictions for players in the USSR, these participants were sort of "fish out of water." Do you remember anything particulary interesting about the Soviet participants during these times?

Jan-05-08  veigaman: Hi ray, what is your favourite chess piece and why? Thanks in advance
Jan-07-08  talisman: when will your next book be coming out? and what will the title be?
Jan-10-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: no i think kramnik deserves to play anand for the title-but i think kamskys time will come-first he has to beat topalov
Jan-10-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: <whiskeyrebel> thanks very much for your kind words about my petrosian book-it took quite a long time to write! we-ie julian simpole and i-are very pleased with it.
Jan-10-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: <fred lennox> some interesting ideas for books there-i wd also one day like to write a book about the great masters use of the catalan-if ever i get time
Jan-10-08
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  ray keene: hastings- memories include my wins against botvinnik, miles and timman and analysing with tal till late in the night in the hotel bar
Jan-10-08
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  ray keene: favourite piece-probably a fianchettoed kings bishop

next book-gm tactics- a sequel to gm strategy-includes games of mine against hubner geller tal korchnoi karpov and others

Jan-10-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: <sitzkrieg> you are in violation of the guidelines and your comments shd be taken down-however i cant resist pointing out a couple of things-

1 i have never knowingly purveyed any kind of falsehood in anything i have written

2 in the extract you quote winter seems to be unable to reconcile the facts that i sent off a telex message in the morning while elsewhere i refer to my message reaching moscow later that day-what he has forgotten -presumably because he does not get out and about much-is that moscow is three hours later in time than the uk, so it was perfectly possible to send a telex in uk morning time , while at the same time it was much later in the afternoon in moscow! that rather obviously explains why it was possible for me to know about events happening in moscow in their afternoon time while it was still morning time in london. this is so blazingly obvious i have never bothered to point it out before.

on top of that-in spite of winters desperate rearguard actions to defend the now defunct corrupt commie state- history has served its verdict on that disgraceful episode-if any umpire or arbiter in any other sport had halted the contest at the point campomanes did he wd have been lynched!

Jan-10-08  dexterious: <sitzkrieg> It is well-known that Keene is a dubious character. You should read some of the earlier posts, and you'll get a good idea of his behaviour. His typical response earlier has been to either scream for censorship at the chessgames staff, or threaten legal action (lol).

Ultimately, a lot of posters here decided two things - 1. everyone knows of his pathetic actions, as does Keene himself, so there is no real need to embarass him further, 2. he does contribute something, however self-advertising, to chessgames, so let him be in his corner here. At least he doesnt go about other forums etc.

I'd suggest you ignore him.

Jan-10-08  whatthefat: <dexterious: It is well-known that Keene is a dubious character. You should read some of the earlier posts, and you'll get a good idea of his behaviour.>

Going by <sitzkrieg>'s uniformly childish behaviour on this site, I'd say the same of him myself. Frankly, I think he's lucky to get a response from Keene at all.

Jan-10-08  whatthefat: But to write him off over this single issue is to overlook all the good that he has done for chess. He's certainly done more than any of us. It seems a little unfair to me.
Jan-10-08  Jim Bartle: I've heard many things as well, but please, let's avoid these subjects here. Frankly I find it very uncomfortable, and don't think this is the place.

As long as Mr. Keene does not attack others, which I haven't seen except as a response to direct criticism, we should avoid these subjects.

My opinion, others may disagree.

Jan-10-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Hi Ray, have you seen the movie "Dangerous Moves"? Its an early 80s movie with a chess theme, a young Russian GM defector, an established "Moscow approved" champion, with a WC match set in Geneva, Swit. The movie seems to be almost directly lifted from the Karpo--Korchnoi match and intrigue of '78 in Baguio City. The movie even has a Russian paranormal guy (Dr. Zhukov?) trying to hypnotize the defector GM.

I was just thinking about this, because I had recently rented the movie, it was the first time I had seen it on the shelf.

I believe you were in Baguio as a second/analyst for the Korchnoi team. I was just wondering if you or your cohorts had noticed the similarites in this movie with the real life events of 1978...? Do you know of anyone who had worked on the movie as a consultant? The opening analysis and games in the movie seem pretty accurate, a nice change for a chess-themed movie!

Jan-11-08
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  ray keene: yes i have seen the movie-i think one of the characters is loosely based on me
Jan-11-08  DrGrobb: Ray,you are the author of the best opening book of all time!!!Flank Openings!!! Any ideas of an upgrade. The way it was made makes it timeless,even if it never gets upgraded again.
Jan-11-08  mmcarlos: Mr. Keene,
I need to buy one of your books named "D4 an openning repertoire for white". Would you be kind enough to tell me how to acquire that since I live in Brasil and I can't find it in Amazon.com ? answer to mmcarlos@zipmail.com.br
Jan-11-08  mmcarlos: But you can answer here , too , for your convenience. I simply can't find that book, it was published by Batsford (D4 an opening repertoire for white). Thank you!
Jan-14-08  shakkiseepra: You propaby get this a lot and the question might be a little odd, but are you the Raymond Keene I suppose you to be? The Ray Keene who has written my book shelf?
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