Ida’s letters to Kingpin
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Ida Eddis Foster’s letters in Kingpin
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Ida Eddis Foster's letters, Penguin profiles
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Spot the difference
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, journalism, plagiarism
1974 book The World of Chess by Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing (p.115):
1990 book Chess An Illustrated History by Raymond Keene (p. 80):
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Kingpin in Private Eye!
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · About Us, Private Eye, The Penguin Files
How delightful . . . to see a new website chronicling the Penguin’s career and reproducing many of the articles in which Lord Gnome revealed Keene’s unsavoury history as a chess impresario and businessman. The site – kingpinchess.net – is run by the magazine Kingpin, described by one international chess master as “the Private Eye [...]
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An Appeal to Readers
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, journalism, plagiarism, The Penguin Files
From Ida Eddis Foster (Newtown, Rochester):
Dear Mr Manley,
In issue 15 of Kingpin I defended Ray Keene against umpteen accusations, including the 1978 book “scandal”. I was livid at how Jean Stean used CHESS to accuse Ray of hatching “a premeditated and deliberate plan to deceive” Korchnoi over publication of the book.
Well, now I’ve got my [...]
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Caption competition: win a subscription to Kingpin!
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · The Penguin Files
http://marshtowers.blogspot.com/2009/12/live-from-olympia_11.html
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Little known chess facts no. 74
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, journalism, plagiarism
The working title of Warriors of the Mind was ‘Chess Summit’.
Kingpin is accepting bids for the entire manuscript of this much maligned masterpiece. Offers over 50 English pence, please.
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Keene on . . .
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Keene on . . .
Journalism
‘I tend to make the articles in The Spectator more wordy and The Times I make a little bit more lapidary in the style.’
Tunisgate
‘When I did my accounts after that event, I think I’d made eleven pounds profit.’
Being expelled from the BCF
‘I thought, the mere thought that they can even remotely suspect [...]
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Private Eye on Brain Games
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Brain Games, Private Eye, The Penguin Files
Between December 2002 and November 2003 the British satirical magazine Private Eye published six articles on the Brain Games scandal. We present them below, reproduced by kind permission of PRIVATE EYE magazine www.private-eye.co.uk. The current issue of Kingpin gives a full account of the scam.
Private Eye 1044 (28 Dec – 10 Jan 2002)
Private Eye 1046 (25 Jan [...]
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The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, journalism, plagiarism, The Penguin Files
This item deals with an accusation of plagiarism levelled against Raymond Keene in the magazine Inside Chess: May 3rd, 1993, pages 24-25; June 14th 1993, page 19 and February 7th 1994, page 3. We are grateful to Inside Chess, now owned by Chess Café, for permission to reproduce this material and would refer the reader [...]
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Backstabbing in Baguio
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, journalism, plagiarism, The Penguin Files
Kingpin reader Florence Manny (Manila, The Philippines) writes:
‘Grandmaster Keene’s twin acts of treachery against Korchnoi in the 1978 World Championship are in my humble opinion the apogee of his two-timing career. He stitched up Korchnoi before the match by signing a contract he had no intention of honouring. Then he stitched him up again just [...]
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