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| Feb-17-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Thanks, Ray! This is one of those positions where if played between computers they would go for typical "computer move" kinda stuff, but between human opponents moves with deep strategical conceptions such as your exchange sac, so as to win the light-squares makes the defence much more difficult for the side having to cope with the sudden pressure on that colour-complex. LTJ |
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| Feb-24-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Hi Ray
I recently acquired some old volumes of <Chess> from the 80s. Vol. 49, nos 933-934, October 1984 had a rather interesting photo taken by you at Silverstone . It features Annette Keene, Julian Hardinge and the driver Simon Hadfield in a vintage Formula 3 car. The caption read that you were part of a consortium which won the British Championship for Historic Formula 3 cars. Do you still keep up your interest in vintage racers? |
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Feb-25-12
 | | ray keene: sadly and for a variety of reasons we only did this for one season-i did enjoy winning another british championship though! |
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Mar-07-12
 | | OhioChessFan: <ray keene> I thank you kind sir for the amazing generosity you've shown this site. Your annotations and analysis and recounting of tales of players and events is a real blessing. |
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| Mar-11-12 | | ulysses ganesh: i wish ray keene to continue playing! |
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Mar-11-12
| | ray keene: thank you both for the good wishes and compliments-its probably just simuls from here on in-but who knows!? |
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Mar-12-12
 | | HeMateMe: ...enjoyed reading your interview with new chess spark plug Andrew paulsen. The story (at Chessbase) mentions that the new Grand Prix will "be in world cities". London, Berlin and Moscow will participate. Was the United States considered for a tournament, perhaps NYC, D.C. or Chicago? Don't know if this had been a part of your conversations. Is the corporate sponsorship for chess in the USA so apathetic that the Grand Prix simply can't come to the USA? Seems sad--the dollars are here, they simply have to be redirected towards chess. Do you have any specifics about Agon hosting world championship events? Does a WC bid from a city still have some sort of proviso that 10-20% of the prize fund be given to FIDE for "developmental" purposes? Not to be a wet blanket, but can the owner of a media empire in Russia be completely objective? You have had a lot of contact with media over the years. If newspapers and televsion stations in Russia can be shut down, or some of their employess be fired for criticizing Medved/Putin, can this man Paulsen be completely fair in his chess dealings, or does he always have to worry about how the rulers in Russia will "see things"? Did Kirsan actually play chess with the E.T.s, and do any game scores exist? As always, thank you for your involvement in the royal game. |
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| Mar-12-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: I think it's rubbish until I see it.
Steve G, a mutual friend of Ray and me, tends to call the FIDE president names like "Illmaniac". Steve has a point after those ET stories freely admitted to by Kirsan. Be very pushy in your interviews Ray. Simply ask: "Nobody really believes this because of past scandals. Why should anyone believe you or FIDE?" |
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| Mar-12-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @<HeMateMe>
Kirsan's match against the ETs is an X-File. FBI property, alas. |
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Mar-12-12
| | HeMateMe: Well, any questions about Kirsan are meant to be light humour. I am wondering if things have changed in WC chess if this company Agon is running things. |
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Mar-12-12
| | HeMateMe: Well, any questions about Kirsan are meant to be light humour. I am wondering if things have changed in WC chess if this company Agon is running things. |
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Mar-14-12
| | ray keene: everything i know is in the interview-i am as ever an optimist-in fact the human brain is hardwired for optimism otherwise we would all have given up thousands of years ago! |
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Mar-23-12
| | HeMateMe: USA memory champ, who seems to use some techniques that Tony Buzan/Ray Keene have had some success with: <http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/unplug...> |
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| Mar-29-12 | | Paint My Dragon: Ray - Having just read 'Centre Stage and Behind The Scenes' by Averbakh and 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by Bronstein, I noticed you got passing mentions in each. Averbakh describes you as 'energetic and enterprising' when writing of the 1983 semi-final WC matches you arranged and raised sponsorship for in London. Bronstein, on the other hand, was irked in 1995 by your writing (about his 1951 drawn WC match) that " ... he (Bronstein) would almost certainly have been no match for the Botvinnik of 1948". He questions how you arrived at this conclusion when their previous two encounters had resulted in a plus score for him. I was therefore intrigued as to why you had held that belief and whether your opinion had since changed? |
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Apr-01-12
| | ray keene: THE botvinnik -bronstein match had some horrible mistakes in it, and in my opinion if botvinnik cd score 50% playing that badly, he shd have won if he had hit his peak so far of 1948. i think the 1951 match was the worst botvinnik played in world title contests, even worse than his losses in 1957, 1960 and 1963. |
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| Apr-02-12 | | King Death: <Paint My Dragon> What do 2 games between players prove? How about the 5 games between Fischer and Spassky before Reykjavik or the fact that Alekhine never won a single game against Capablanca before Buenos Aires? |
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| Apr-02-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Hi Ray
I played Cathy Haslinger at a tournament in Islington in 1987. No surprises when I say I lost; she had just won the World Championship for girls in her age group. I've never heard of her since. What happened, do you know? A related question. A Mrs. R.M. Bruce (from Plymouth) won the Girls' World Championship in 1935. The only reference I have ever seen of her is in "the Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match" by Klein and Winter (1947). Britain can boast two girl world champions. But there is remarkably little, it seems, about those champs. |
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| Apr-02-12 | | Paint My Dragon: Ray - thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense; I would trust your assessment of those previous Botvinnik performances, as I know you have always taken a keen interest in the history of the world championship and will have studied the games. I do wonder if Bronstein, always a very magnanimous sportsman in my opinion, felt bitter about this result, given the considerable psychological pressures he says he was under and yet, still putting up a great challenge. Also a mystery for me, is his retelling of the story in a way that suggests he would never have wanted to be world champion anyway. Could he really have played that hard for a trophy he didn't want? Determination is usually such a vital ingredient at the top level. <King Death> I don't think Bronstein was making out that a small plus over two games made him the better player - only that there was no evidence to conclude the opposite, particularly as Botvinnik had been unable to demonstrate any superiority over the course of a long match. |
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Apr-02-12
| | ray keene: elaine pritchard, rowena bruce and cathy haslinger have all done well for us but for various reasons they never quite got the recognition they deserved-meanwhile as far as bronstein is concerned i think his father had been arrested by Stalin and bronstein always felt under pressure for that reason-others may have deeper insights.imo the 1951 match was scrappy and unsatisfactory and had far too many horrible blunders by both sides. |
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Apr-02-12
 | | chrisowen: I ensconced an elaine p once. Re busy blinker!
First too mature got big trouble in juniors an it wasn't a day eek to
remember!
Getting to the point i bow ie to yur opine on the matter f6 in rjb v pb 1963 too wet your wise preside.
Divided 14.qxg7 work?
Eine 19.rf6 feisty rivend i guess cal pal blo - rank it does in drag your
memory as a candidate in good moves me gold 17.be6 db v rjf second
craving f6? kind reg. |
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| Apr-02-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <GM Keene> I'm sending you this note to tell you that I have been progressing along "Petrosian vs the Elite" quite well. In regards to Games 11 and 23 from the 1969 WCC Match, I am in agreement with you that they artistically incredible achievements. Three question for you:
1) What was the effect that these two games had on the Chess world back then? 2) Had anything of the sort been seen before?
3) What was the prevailing opinion of GMs during the 60's of Petrosian and his style? Kindly permit me one final question: have you ever come across this gem? R T Cardoso vs Petrosian, 1975
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your reply! LTJ |
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| Apr-05-12 | | LoveThatJoker: PS. I apologize for some spelling mistakes and note that I am referring to games 11 and 20 of the 1969 WCC Match, and not 11 and 23! LTJ |
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Apr-05-12
| | ray keene: <chris owen> sorry-i am baffled! <lovethatjoker> i think the primary impression was of spasskys overall victory not petrosians individual masterpieces-tho peter clarke did draw attention in the BCM to these two superlative creations. there is a precedent for the ..Rc4 sac used by Petrosian in the last st amant v staunton match game of paris 1843-a remarkably similar game. gms at the time respected petrosian but there was a general feeling - even with spasskys victory -that fischer was the coming man-yes and no as it turned out! |
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Apr-05-12
| | ray keene: cardoso v petrosian-no i hadnt seen it-its amazing but is it always ok for black-can someone with a strong computer inform us? btw there was a precedent for this too in fischer 0 v petrosian 1 caro kann candidates 1959-also with long black king walk and duckstein v petrosian varna 1962. |
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