Chess is barely visible in mainstream media. Chessplayers have only themselves to blame, argues Justin Horton I have a foreign name. Not foreign to me, of course, nor to most people reading. But it is foreign in the country where I live. Foreign in origin and foreign in construction. The first name starts with a sound [...]
Entries Tagged as 'The Penguin Files'
It’s Only Chess
August 11th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Books, journalism, plagiarism, Features, Reviews, The Penguin Files
Tags: plagiarism·Raymond Keene·Zugzwang
Plagiarism watch
April 22nd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Books, journalism, plagiarism, Features
In his blog on 7 March 2012 (‘Termitewatch’) Steve Giddins moaned about people . . . ‘. . . clambering repeatedly on their high horses over allegations that Ray Keene may or may not have purloined the odd bit of analysis of the Lisitsin Gambit.’ And the following month (blog on 16 April 2012): ‘. [...]
Tags: Raymond Keene·Steve Giddins
Generous to a Fault
November 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · The Penguin Files
From Grandmaster Tony Miles Sir, I was stunned to read your recent issues casting doubt on the legendary and overwhelming generosity of International Grandmaster Raymond Keene, OBE. I cannot allow such malicious rubbish to go unanswered. No doubt some readers will be quite surprised to learn that GM Keene gave sums of up to £20 [...]
Bad chess writing
October 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books, journalism, plagiarism, Reviews, The Penguin Files
Edward Winter has written a funny and perceptive piece about the faults of chess writers. The following review echoes many of his criticisms. The Brain Games World Chess Championship by Raymond Keene and Don Morris Everyman, 2000 Review by Steve Giddins It is often said that one only appreciates something once it has gone. [...]
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10 Seconds with Raymond Keene
October 1st, 2011 · No Comments · 10 Seconds with, Penguin profiles, The Penguin Files
This is the first in a series of interviews where Kingpin readers are invited to pose one question to a prominent figure in the chess world. Subscriber Gordon Clackett’s guest is the writer and impresario Raymond Keene. Gordon Clackett: Why do so many people consider you untruthful? Raymond Keene: They don’t. If you would [...]
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It’s Only Chess
May 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Books, journalism, plagiarism, Features, The Penguin Files
How can chess players ask for respect when they are unable to respect themselves? Read Justin Horton’s hard-hitting article here first published in Kingpin 40
Tags: chessboxing·FIDE·Raymond Keene·Zugzwang
Kingpin should be banned – an open letter to the Chess World
January 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Ida Eddis Foster's letters, The Penguin Files
Dear Chess World, Shocked is scarcely the word for my reaction to issue 40 of Kingpin magazine. Reading the detailed article about Ray Keene, “Machiavelli on Ice”, anyone would conclude that such a man merits no place at all in the chess world. It was bad enough when the previous issue uncharitably put Ray’s writing [...]
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Ida Eddis Foster’s letters in Kingpin
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Ida Eddis Foster's letters, Penguin profiles
Ida’s letters to Kingpin
Tags: David Levy·Raymond Keene
Spot the difference
February 26th, 2010 · 2 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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