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Nov-22-20
 | | HeMateMe: is there a site or page anywhere where Ray's past chess columns are available? I mean, aside from going to each newspaper edition is there a grouping somewhere? |
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Nov-22-20
 | | MissScarlett: Winter's <Chess Notes> have a fair selection. Or unfair, depending on your point of view. |
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Jan-24-21
 | | offramp: Does anyone else here follow GM Keene on Twitter? It's at @GM_RayKeene. |
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Jan-24-21
| | HeMateMe: <ray keene: This week's chess column inWww.thearticle.com deals with the role of chess in penal reform.> Just curious, has anyone ever come out of jail and been a successful tournament player? I don't mean at the professional level, but just being a talented weekend swiss player? |
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| Jan-24-21 | | Sally Simpson: ***
I use to take a team of six to prison to play v the inmates team, some were known to me through chess before they robbed a Post Office (5 years). When they got out they picked up chess were they left, I never noticed any drastic improvement in them, however a few of the prison team who had never played seriously before became good/quite reasonable league players when they got released. When I was in the army I did a few spells in the glasshouse (10 day stints for going AWOL - not returning from leave because I was having too much fun.) Not allowed a chess set and board but there was one in the guardroom and I played those on night shift duty. *** |
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Jan-24-21
 | | Check It Out: <Sally> Great stories, thank you. |
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Jan-29-21
 | | Paint My Dragon: <HMM: Just curious, has anyone ever come out of jail and been a successful tournament player?> John Healy was one notable example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_... <The Grass Arena> was his dramatized life story, but he also wrote <Coffeehouse Chess Tactics>. |
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Feb-02-21
| | MissScarlett: Ray, regarding your recent claim that Euwe, as FIDE President, offered to stop the 1978 WC match with the score tied 5-5, when did you first make this public? |
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Feb-02-21
 | | ray keene: I believe I first mentioned the Euwe offer in 1985, after the good Dr had passed away. I am bringing out an anthology of my columns: Fifty Shades of Ray to be published by Hardinge Simpole. |
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Feb-02-21
 | | Eggman: <<... Euwe, as FIDE President, offered to stop the 1978 WC match with the score tied 5-5 ...>> Unfathomable. The uproar would have been ten times greater than what occurred in 1985. |
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Feb-03-21
| | MissScarlett: < I believe I first mentioned the Euwe offer in 1985> Given the context of the termination of the 1984/85 match, the obvious place to look were your books, <The Moscow Challenge> and <Manoeuvres in Moscow>. I can't find any mention of Euwe in them. Please advise. Regarding the nature of Euwe's proposition, did you form an opinion on whether this was a private initiative on his behalf, or had it already been discussed with -and endorsed by? - other FIDE bigwigs, the Filipino organisers (including Campomanes) and the Soviets? Was your conversation in person or by telephone? |
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| Feb-10-21 | | JPLL: this dude sucks, jan lubek gave him idea to choose computer to play kramnik and lubek's computer was never invited for playoffs! |
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| Feb-10-21 | | JPLL: lubek's cm-by2k is based on chessmaster 2000! |
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Feb-11-21
| | ray keene: Euwe's 1978 offer was in private face to face conversation. I had the impression that it was endorsed by all the powers that be. The motives for the 1978 offer and 1985 termination were, in my opinion, rather different. |
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Feb-11-21
| | HeMateMe: the Karpov/Korchnoi match was full of good, fighting chess, all the way to game 31. no reason to terminate play. In contrast, Kasparov was just drawing quickly as white in his '84 match with Karpov, just hoping that Karpov's nerves would fail, as some fatigue set in. |
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| Feb-12-21 | | Olavi: From the Karpov page: <carpovius: "Unfair to Karpov?" an article by GM Keene))> https://www.thearticle.com/unfair-t...
The article gives the Anand - Karpov wins head to head as 11-5. I'm fairly sure it is 9-5, one of Anand's wins being from the Buenos Aires 1994 Polugaevsky Jubilee Sicilian theme tournament. This site makes the same mistake, considering a couple of rapid games as classical. Anyone in possession of Keene's book on the 1978 match will recognize several passages. It's nice to meet old friends. |
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Feb-13-21
| | HeMateMe: Is that the strange book with very small type size? If so, it was very hard on the eyes, poor layout. |
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Mar-20-21
| | MissScarlett: <Ray>, I've been looking over the old <BBC Master Game> tournaments which ran over six series from 1975 to 1981. Curious that you never took part when many other leading British players featured at least once. Were you ever invited? |
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Mar-28-21
| | Paint My Dragon: <Miss Scarlett> Ray was a participant in series 7, which you seem to be missing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Master-Gam... |
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Mar-28-21
| | MissScarlett: I'd forgotten about that! I was just going by the two BBC books which each cover three series. And I think I've seen that DVD; but series 7 was the last, wasn't it? There's a problem dating games, because it seems some series were played/recorded one year, and broadcast the next. In which case, my question becomes: <Ray>, why didn't you appear in the first six series? Were the games all played in London and then filmed in Bristol? What was the money like - this is taxpayers' money, of course? Speak up, I know you're there! |
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Mar-28-21
| | Paint My Dragon: The recordings were usually October, with screenings the following January. Must have taken a lot of editing what with the separately recorded commentary and state of the art graphics! |
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Mar-28-21
| | ray keene: They never invited me until 1981! I don't recall the prize money. It's probably given somewhere in the book |
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Mar-28-21
| | MissScarlett: James & Hartston seem to have monopolised the Beeb's coverage for a long time. Apart from Master Game, I think they must have covered all the world championship matches from 1978 to, say, 1986. Did you get any airtime, and if not, did it push you in the direction of Thames TV? |
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Mar-30-21
| | ray keene: I was invited for the 24th and final game of the 1985 world championship, but Thames and Channel 4 were the salvation of my tv chess career. |
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Mar-30-21
| | MissScarlett: Do you think Hartston's TV work may have negatively affected his chances of becoming a GM? He was writing quite a bit for the <BCM> around those years, as well. I don't know if he had a newspaper column or other media work on the go. |
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