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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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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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