Raymond Keene

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Raymond Keene, 1985
Surname Raymond Dennis Keene
Association EnglandEngland England
Born January 29, 1948
London , United Kingdom
title International Master (1972)
Grand Master (1976)
Current  Elo rating 2455 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2510 (January 1977)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Raymond Dennis Keene , OBE (born January 29, 1948 in London ) is an English chess master , chess author and chess journalist.

successes

Raymond Keene, International German Championship 1981 in Bochum

Raymond Keene was second in the Junior World Championships in 1967 (World Champion was Julio Kaplan , third Jan Timman ) and won the British Individual Championship in 1971 . In 1975 he was third behind Walter Browne and Luděk Pachman at the International German Championship in Mannheim .

In 1976 Keene became the second native British grandmaster , in the same year and just shortly after Tony Miles . In 1978 he worked as a second for Viktor Korchnoi in the world championship match against Anatoly Karpov in Baguio . He represented England from 1966 to 1980 at a total of eight Chess Olympiads , losing only nine of 93 games. The greatest success was third place at the 1976 Chess Olympiad , and he also won an individual bronze medal at the 1968 Olympics (on the fourth board) and 1976 (on the second board). Keene also took England to the European Team Championships in 1973, 1977, 1980 and 1983, in part. He reached third place with the team in 1980 and won the individual ranking on the fifth board. At the European Club Cup he reached the semi-finals with Volmac Rotterdam in 1984 . His most important successes in tournament chess include - in addition to winning the British championship - his victory at the Dortmund Chess Days in 1980 and the shared first place at the traditional "Lloyds Bank Open" in London in 1981, together with Yasser Seirawan and Tony Miles. Keene has not been active in chess internationally since 1985, his Elo rating has been 2455 since then.

further activities

Keene is responsible for the candidate semi-final between Garry Kasparov and Korchnoi, which took place in London in 1983. He was also one of the organizers of the World Cup between Kasparov and Karpov , the first half of which also took place in London in 1986. With the company and the internet platform "Brain Games" at that time, Keene organized the world championship match between Kramnik and Kasparov in 2000 , outside of the official World Championship cycles of the World Chess Federation FIDE . In 2002, Keene and "Brain Games" organized Kramnik's competition against the Deep Fritz chess program in Bahrain.

Keene participated with the mental trainer Tony Buzan in the founding of the Thinking Sports Olympiad and organized several memory world championships with him .

Keene is also active as a book author and journalist, and according to his own information, he has written over 120 chess books. His best work is a biography of his chess role model: Aaron Nimzowitsch . A Reappraisal (1st edition 1974, extended new edition 1999, ISBN 0-7134-8438-1 ). Keene's invention Qd8 – e8 in the classical system of the Nimzowitsch-Indian defense after 5. a2 – a3 Bb4xc3 + 6. Qc2xc3 reflects his view of Nimzowitsch's work.

In contrast, other books by Keenes were criticized for weaknesses in their content, including the book Samurai Chess, which was written together with Michael Gelb . Mastering the Martial Art of the Mind . 1993 Keene was accused in his book The Complete Book of gambits a plagiarism of having committed. Keene wrote her own chess column in the English newspaper The Times . In this column, too, he was repeatedly accused of copying from other authors.

Awards

For his services to chess he was accepted as an officer in the Order of the British Empire in 1985 .

Works (selection)

With Richard N. Coles:

  • Howard Staunton, the English world chess champion . St. Leonards on Sea: British Chess Magazine, 1975, ISBN 0900846194 .

With David S. Goodman:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 56th German individual chess championship 1975 in Mannheim on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  2. ↑ Raymond Keene's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Raymond Keene's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Raymond Keene's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1980 on TeleSchach
  6. ↑ Keenes Elo development at FIDE
  7. ↑ Elo history of Raymond Keenes (until 2001) at olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ a b Keene on chessgames.com
  9. ↑ Review by Taylor Kingston
  10. ↑ Review by Tony Miles in Kingpin magazine
  11. ↑ Edward Winter: Copying

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personal data
SURNAME Keene, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keene, Raymond Dennis; Keene, Raymond D. (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chess master, chess author and chess journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH London