Author: Raymond Keen

Raymond Dennis Keene OBE is an English chess grandmaster, an FIDE International arbiter, a chess organizer, and a journalist and author. He won the British Chess Championship in 1971 and British Chess Championship in 1971, and was the first player from England to earn a Grandmaster norm, in 1974. In 1976 he became the second Englishman to be awarded the Grandmaster title, and he was the second British chess player to beat an incumbent World Chess Champion. He represented England in eight Chess Olympiads. Keene retired from competitive play in 1986 at the age of thirty-eight, and is now better known as a chess organizer, columnist and author. He wrote the official biography of Tony Buzan.