Ray's book on Petrosian was published in 2006. Where have you been? I guess those Wacky Races must have been a major distraction.>

The date of the comment containing Keene's statement that he had a forthcoming book on Petrosian was September 2017. So I assumed it was not the earlier one but a new one, though on reflection there the date of the quote wasn't disclosed so could have been many years earlier, sure.

Anyway, you're right. "Wacky Races" and "Stop the Pigeon" took up a lot of time in those days.

He used to do a weekly puzzle with Byron Jacobs called Two Brains but the <Puzzles Editor> (what a job) decided upon a bouleversement this Saturday and some new, and very good, puzzles were brought in.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handler...

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I didn't express myself clearly enough. Ray had two columns on Saturday: he has a standard chess column (which is normally one or two games and a chess puzzle), and he had a general knowledge quiz which was usually two questions of a lateral thinking type.

<CHC: Well, in my (limited) understanding, "traditional chess puzzles" are the kind that appeared in papers when I was a kid: "composed puzzles" that were incredibly intricate and/or spoilers (look simple but there is some diabolical catch) and/or are composed to illustrate a certain theme (smothered mate, how to avoid stalemate with a certain configuration of pieces, etc.) Puzzles like the ones posted on CG are drawn from games. That approach has certain advantages,of course, such as focusing on situations you are likely to encounter in a real game, but I kind of miss the fiendishly clever composed traditional puzzles ("which i call "traditional" if for no other reason that the people would have referred to the CG type "puzzle" as combinations rather than puzzles).