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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
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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:
   🏆 Simultaneous exhibition
   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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 page 1 of 77; games 1-25 of 1,909  PGN Download
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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Nov-15-06  veigaman: speaking of computer, what has it been the best game played by a computer in your opinion? what has it been the strongest novelty introduced by a computer? thanks in advance
Nov-16-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Jonathan Sarfati: So Capa would do better than Karpov? It makes sense given his ability in his best days to solve problems over the board, e.g. the famous Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 Kasparov's "My Great Predecessors" is somewhat harsh on Capa and surprisingly generous to Karpov.
Nov-16-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: kasparov believes in work -capa believed in talent-kasparov is an alekhine man not a capa man!

greatest computer game-number 2 v kasparov in the second big blue match-apart from kf1 error near the end a perfect game by the machine.

computer tn? hard to tell-the openings are often programmed in by top human players so tns are often memory not innovation per se!

Nov-16-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Jonathan Sarfati: Maybe best computer TN the following, sourced in John Nunn's secrets of practical chess:

Shirov,A - van Wely,L [B81]
Monaco Amber (rapid)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.g4 h6 8.f4 b5 9.Bg2 Bb7 10.g5 hxg5 11.fxg5 Nh5 12.g6 Nf6 13.gxf7+ Kxf7 14.0-0 Nbd7

And now for the stunning TN:

15.Nxe6!!

Which Shirov said was found by Fritz, giving a winning position in all lines.

... Kxe6 16.e5 Bxg2 [16...Nxe5 17.Bxb7 ;
16...Qc7 17.exf6 Nxf6 18.Nd5 Bxd5 19.Rxf6+ Kxf6 20.Qxd5 ] 17.exf6 Nxf6 18.Kxg2 Rc8 [18...Qe8 19.Rxf6+ Kxf6 20.Qd5 Kg6 21.Qd3+ Kf7 22.Rf1+ Kg8 23.Qd5+ Kh7 24.Rf3 Be7 25.Rh3+ Kg6 26.Qe6+ Bf6 27.Rg3+ Kh7 28.Qf5+ Kg8 29.Qxf6 ] 19.Qf3 Be7 20.Rae1 Kf7 21.Qd5+ Kf8 22.Qf5 Qc7 23.Bd4 Qb7+ 24.Kg1 Rc4 25.Rf4 Qc8 26.Re6 Rxd4 [26...Kf7 27.Ne4 Rxc2 28.Nxd6+ Bxd6 29.Rxf6+ gxf6 30.Qxf6+ Ke8 31.Qf7+; 26...Rh6 27.Nd5] 27.Rxf6+ 1-0

Nov-16-06  independentthinker: Fischer even challenged Stein to a match - that would have been a great battle. But as usual Fischer's demands were inappropriate...
Nov-16-06  kackhander: the new guardian column looks like vukovic for dummies.
Nov-16-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: re the guardian-i hope they get punished by having what chess readers they have left defect to the times!i must say i was professionally worried when short joined the guardian and altho i lament his dismissal its a good thing for rival papers
Nov-16-06  Microbe: I have been meaning to thank you by the way GM Raymond Keene for some time. I learned the rules of chess when I was very young, but peer pressure and other circumstances stopped me from playing chess almost entirely.

However, about 2 years ago I picked up a copy of "The Sunday Times Magazine" that was turned to the page with your article and problem on it. I decided to teach myself the notation and play through the games to see what it was like again.

Within a week I was hooked all over again. So here I am now, on a chess site, waiting for my game on the univeristy team in 3 hours, thanking the Grandmaster who wrote the articles that reawakend the love of chess in me =)

Nov-16-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: <microbe> --good to hear it-hope you play like a virus tonite and overwhelm the opposition!
Nov-16-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Jonathan Sarfati: What was <i>The Guardian</i> thinking, expunging a column by the only Britisher to qualify for a world title match, by beating Karpov no less?
Nov-17-06  code13: I will miss Short's column and I am not defending the Guardian. But presumably they are seeking to appeal to that group of people who enjoy playing the game, but have little or no interest in wider chess scene.

This attitude is suprisingly prevalent, even among serious club players. I remember mentioning the latest Karpov v Kasparov game to a guy, who was actually an Irish Schools International player, and he just said "as I will never play in a World Championship, why should I be interested in it?"

Nov-17-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: that comment explains the philosophy behind my daily column in the times

what i publish there is based on the following

1 the times is a journal of record so i try to give the important games and results from all top events

2 since there are many ways of getting chess news quickly nowadays i also try to give what cannot be found elsewhere when there is time and space for it-ie informed opinion and game comments

3 i also give a puzzle for readers to become involved each day with chess inter- actively offering prizes at the weekends

i think the guardian by dropping short has lost the most attractive mix-i liked shorts column because of the analysis and the outspokenness-but i think he wd have done well to have a puzzle too for readers to solve-whats replaced it is pathetic-and as a rival columnist i shd be pleased-tho i feel strongly its a loss for chess.

Nov-17-06  VargPOD: Ok, the new Guardian column looks poor. I like Daniel King's "How good is your chess"-column in "Chess"-magazine. There he shows one game each time, you play on one side and try to guess the next move and get points accordingly. Very entertaining and educational. But this Guardian format seems just boring and repetitive. Although Short had some very questionable opinions, his columns were never boring!

In Finland chess is well below the public radar. We have an everyday chess column in Helsingin Sanomat, the major newspaper, but otherwise no chess in the media since Kasparov-Deep Blue. Not even the Toiletgate. How's chess media visibility in other countries?

Nov-17-06  Zebra: I have now added my two cents' worth to the letters to The Guardian.
Nov-17-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: in the uk we have daily columns in the times and telegraph and independent-weekly columns in the spectator sunday times sunday telegraph ft sunday times-observer-and then theres the guardian!

if they respond i wd love to know what they say-did you ask about this ronan bennett person being married to the deputy editor and needing to puff his new chess book?

Nov-17-06  veigaman: ray, who is the current strongest player when the queens are exchanged?
Nov-17-06  kackhander: i wrote the grauniad an uncharacteristically polite email two weeks ago and received no response at all.
Nov-17-06  szunzein: Hello,
weard enough The Guardian International doesn't answer the mails they received from their readers either. That's my experience.
I wonder why.

Nov-17-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: kramnik without queens is the best-those not getting a reply shd try writing to the guardians editor
Nov-17-06  you vs yourself: Mr.Keene, any idea about Kasparov and Kramnik's personal wealth? After winning so many tournaments and playing in some very big matches, they must be pretty rich.
Nov-17-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: i guess they are both dollar millionaires several times over
Nov-17-06  mack: <kramnik without queens is the best-those not getting a reply shd try writing to the guardians editor>

Alan usually gets back pretty quickly, it has to be said.

Nov-17-06  veigaman: ray, why was shirov so succesfull against kramnik?
Nov-18-06  thegoodanarchist: Ray, have you posted the win/loss/draw percentages of the World Champions on this thread anywhere?

I am asking because I want to know if the answer is "no" before I go scrolling through 250 pages!

Nov-19-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: <veigaman> shirov has a modest plus score v kramnik according to our database here-17 wins to 15 with 39 draws i think--it was really only their world chess council match which left shirov in the lead and created this impression of shirovian superiority. i suspect kramnik was still in the formative stage of developing his formidable match skills at that point.nowadays i wd favour kramnik to slaughter shirov in a match.

now re world champion stats<tga>-i wrote something about this in my book on karpov v korchnoi 1981 which is still in print with www.hardingesimpole.co.uk and is called <massacre in merano>.i have a related essay on the topic in my book <kramnik v leko 2004> same publisher and i have just published <who was the strongest-warriors of the mind part 2>-also hardinge simpole-which probably comes closest to an up to date answer to the question

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