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Monday, October 02, 2006

Ray Keene plagiarism index

"Ray Keene may or may not have purloined the odd bit of analysis of the Lisitsin Gambit."

Research has established that a large number of Ray Keene's Times and Spectator columns have been plagiarised from elsewhere. A precise total is difficult to give (not least because they are often duplicated) but so far it is more than one hundred and forty, with more than one hundred and thirty from the beginning of 2011 onwards. We expect there are more to be discovered.

We link below only to those of Ray's plagiarisms which have so far been documented online, which is presently just a small proportion of those so far identified. The list is added to regularly. If you're new to the subject, this post may be a good place to start.

Please also see the Plagiarised by Ray Keene index, which takes the information in the pieces linked to below and catalogues the persons and publications Ray has plagiarised.

Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Spectator, May 4 2013. (Also see.)
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Spectator, March 12 2011.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 5 June 2013 and 28 May 2010.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 15 April 2013 and the Spectator, 19 May 2012.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 22 February 2011 and 2 May 2011.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors (and Bobby Fischer) in the Times, 8 July 2011 and 4 April 2012.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's Revolution In The 70s in the Times, 19 April 2012.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 17 September 2011.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Spectator, 13 November 2010 and 17 March 2012.
Ray plagiarises Anand's My Best Games of Chess in the Times, 6 October 2011.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Spectator, 1 September 2012.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 13 August 2011 and 29 May 2013.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Spectator, 15/22 December 2012.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Spectator, 4 July 2009 and the Times, 25 February 2011.(Also see.)
Ray plagiarises Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess in the Spectator, 5 January 2013 and the Times, 8 December 2011.
Ray plagiarises Alexander Münninghoff's Max Euwe - The Biography in the Times, 7 March 2012.
Ray plagiarises Tony Miles in the Spectator, 21 June 2003 and 10 August 2013, in The Spectator Book Of Chess (Hardinge Simpole 2004), Tony Miles: England's Chess Gladiator (Hardinge Simpole 2006) and the Times 15 November 2011.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 10 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess in the Times, 11 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Paul Lamford's Spectator notes in his book The Moscow Challenge (Batsford, 1985).
Ray plagiarises Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess in the Times, 12 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 8 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 7 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 6 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 4 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Viktor Korchnoi (from Learn from the Grandmasters) in the Times, 3 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 1 June 2013.
Ray plagiarises Bill Hartston (from Learn from the Grandmasters) in the Spectator, 14 April 2012.
Ray plagiarises the same Bill Harston piece in the Spectator, 11 December 2004
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 3 January 2012 and 24 December 2012.
Ray plagiarises a translation by George Botterill and Birgitte Vibeke Egan Transø (provided for Reappraisal) in the Spectator, 24 October 1998.
Ray plagiarises a note by Max Euwe in the Times, 28 February 2015.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 20 April 2013.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors (and Hans Kmoch) in the Times, 27 August 2011.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors in the Times, 24 October 2016.

Ray plagiarises Edward Winter in Chessville and the Spectator. (Also see.)
Ray plagiarises CHESS in Chessville.
Ray plagiarises the late Ian Wells in CHESS.
Ray plagiarises Jeremy Spinrad and the Oxford Companion to Chess in the Spectator.
Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors on Chessgames.com.

Times Little Book Of Chess Secrets:

Position 1 (Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors) (also see)
Position 2 (Ray plagiarises Kasparov's My Great Predecessors)
Position 3 (Ray plagiarises Korchnoi's work from Learn from the Grandmasters)
...and I am glad

Private Eye articles:

Dark Knight Rises
Chequered Mate
Penguin Takes The Biscuit
Penguin Takes The Biscuit Again
World Of Chess
The bubonic plagiarist
Game, set & match
Clearly not a sacking offence

Plus:

Would you really, Mr Kamm?
Harman In My Head
A quick summary may be helpful
New plagiarist, old plagiarist

And:

Copying
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Not so Keene on copyright
Plaig!

Also of interest:

Old Times
Looks familiar

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[Last updated 6 December 2016. This index created June 2013 - please ignore posting date!]

[Ray Keene index]

Cover Version index

Alan Curtis / Il Complesso Barosso / GF Handel (Lotario)
The Pete Rugolo Orchestra (Rugolo Plays Kenton)
Devienne (Six Trios)
Howard Riley Trio (The Day Will Come)
Dr Paul P Parker (How To Use Tact And Skill In Handling People)
Arthur Bliss (Bliss Conducts Bliss)
Philip Langridge and Graham Johnson / Franz Schubert (The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Complete Songs 4)
Antal Zalai / Bela Bartók (Complete Works for Violin, Volumes 1 and 2)
Manuel Göttsching (E2-E4)
Brand New (Your Favorite Weapon)
Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza (Nuova Consonanza)
Kings Of Convenience (Riot On An Empty Street)

Cover version encore

Kings of Convenience (Declaration of Dependence)
Antal Zalai / Bela Bartók (Complete Works for Violin, Volume 3)

I (Avni)
II (Bronstein)
III (New in Chess)
IV (Karpov)
V (Wilson and Albertson)
VI (Hertan)
VII (Volotikin and Grabinsky)
VIII (Alburt and Lawrence)
IX (Alburt)
X (Dunne)
XI (Basman)
XII (Soltis/Chess Digest)
XIII (Baumbach, Smith and Knobel)
XIV (Keene and Martin)
XV (García Palermo and De Anna)
XVI (Bogdanovich)
XVII (Rudel)
XVIII (Hodgson)
XIX (Olms)
XX (Flear)
XXI (Shamkovich and Cartier)
XXII (Beim)
XXIII (Aagaard and Shaw, eds)
XXIV (Lovas)
XXV (Tykodi and Gufeld)
XXVI (Edwards)
XXVII (Hodgson)
XXVIII (Réti)
XXIX (Neiman)
XXX (Alburt and Lawrence)
XXXI (Jung and Rustic)
XXXII (Johnson)
XXXIII (Jussopow)
XXXIV (Sokolov)

Old Times index

The Times obituary for Elaine Pritchard and the places from which it was copied:

Introduction
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
Conclusion

Ray Keene Index

[The first section goes in descending chronological order, i.e. the most recent items are at the bottom, above "The Keene-Miles affair". Ray's extensive plagiarism is also being documented at the Plagiarism Index and the Plagiarised by Ray Keene index while his industrial-scale reuse of old articles is at the Ray Copies Ray index. Readers may also be interested in Keenipedia, though it is not connected to this blog.]

The things Ray says Ray forgets to mention the book he wrote despite having contracted not to
Ray of hope Ray tries to touch Kate Hoey for a job - Hoey does not reply
Post paste Ray's unauthorised copying from Edward Winter
Grandnesia Ray's excuse - he claims to have forgotten where he copied from
What Ray did next Ray revises his copied piece, but there's still plenty of copying left
Pick up a Private Eye Ray's unauthorised copying reaches the pages of Private Eye
How good is your copying? Ray copying again, albeit this time copying himself
Looks Familiar Ray's Wikipedia entry mysteriously copied into his Chessville biography
Giddins Gracious Me Ray acquires a new sidekick
The Library with Two Brains Ray's books don't seem to make it to legal deposit libraries
PsychoSchiller Ray's sidekick Eric Schiller gets all threatening
Shameless spivvery Ray in Private Eye again
Iffy and whiffy Ray's lawyer fined and banned
The Staunton set Ray has pro-Karpov event named after his own chess tournament
No thank you, CJ Ray acquires yet another sidekick, and unfortunately it's the ECF President
Bad book covers XIV Ray's friend Barry Martin produces hideous cover for Ray's book
Do not adjust your set Ray plugs his brother-in-law's book, omits to mention it's his brother-in-law
When we were Kings XVIII Ray's contract-busting book: how the chess press failed to report the controversy
Did they mean compulsive? Ray favours compulsory chess in schools
Ray Tweets the Wedding Ray claims Royal connections
Anti Chess II: Refuseniks and Dissidents Ray smuggled books into the USSR
Giving a simul Ray played the author in 1984
Cut and paste Ray/Johann Hari joke
Chess man Raymond plays for cheque Ray when he was apparently on course to be the first English Grandmaster
Ray on Rupert Ray loves Rupert Murdoch
When will they ever learn? Ray, for some reason, invited to open the British Championships
CJ, the ECF and Constable Savage Ray, the T-shirt controversy and matters arising
The man who would be mentioned Ray demands apologies
The mysterious appearance of Ray: The ECF Responds Ray at Sheffield: the ECF comments, albeit not very much
At what point does this become embarrassing? Ray's sidekick wished happy birthday by another sidekick
Constable Savage again Ray at the centre of events, but the ECF try to pretend otherwise
Department of A Likely Story : Richard Desmond and the chess correspondent Ray with Desmond in 1984
Rumours Ray and the who-paid-for Sheffield rumours
Rumours II Ray and the who-paid-for Sheffield rumours - questions for the ECF
Rumours III Ray claims a "grovelling apology" to his sidekick
Whatever happened to the King's Indian Attack? Ray in his time was a flank openings pioneer
Considering the possibility Ray's sidekick thinks about appointing Ray as England captain
Tales from the Breakfast Club Ray and his sidekick discuss halloumi
Keeping things vague Ray wants to take the credit, but doesn't want to take the credit
What are buildings with the people gone? Ray hosts major chess tournament - the public not admitted
A likely customer Ray goes sock-puppetting
The Society of the Spectator Ray at event organised by magazine where his unauthorised copying appeared
Money Ray's company and the expensive rulebreaking dinner at the House of Lords
Money: Ray replies Ray and the House of Lords dinner: Ray emails
The Great Chessboxing Swindle: a huge signing Ray does chessboxing commentary. But why did he fall out with Korchnoi?
What happened next XIX Ray in 2007, plagiarising, in Chessville, Jonathan Levitt's notes from 2005 in CHESS
Enjoy a fine game and somebody else's notes Ray's plagiarising from CHESS detailed - and Chessville notified
Downtown Shortly after our piece about Ray plagiarising CHESS, Chessville disappeared
A typical game for the variation Ray illustrates a variation by inserting a move that never took place
All's Wells Ray's tribute to the late Ian Wells - a tribute that plagiarised the deceased's notes
Half a billion chess players can be wrong Did Ray come up with the "half a billion chess players" claim? (Probably not.)
The Great Chessboxing Swindle: taking a dive Ray never makes it to the Candidates commentary booth
Caption competition Ray at Number 11 with George Osborne
What Jean Stean had seen How Ray cheated Viktor Korchnoi: the full story from the CHESS letters column
Press freedom When Ray threw out a journalist from a world championship match
One of the privileged few How Ray cribbed an entire Spectator piece from the Chess Café and the Oxford Companion to Chess
Barking Ray takes lunch with UKIP aristocrats, they talk about chess with live dogs as pieces
Definitely Got Something to do with chess VIII Ray's Hydra book
Predecessors How Ray plagiarised Garry Kasparov in the Spectator
Plagiarism: what happened next Email to the Spectator editor, Ray's claim of permission
Predecessors Predecesssor How Ray plagiarised Garry Kasparov in the Spectator in 2011
Ray plagiarises Kasparov: Private Eye chips in The Eye on Ray plagiarising Kasparov
Stuck in the middle with you Ray's Spectator column from 2011 that reappeared as a Times column in 2012
Predecessors III: Alekhine-Boguljubow 1929 How Ray plagiarised Kasparov in the Times in 2013 - and 2010
Predecessors IV: Capablanca-Alekhine 1927 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times, 2013 - and the Spectator, 2012
Predecessors V: Reshevsky-Najdorf 1952 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times, twice in ten weeks in 2011
Predecessors VI: Fischer-Euwe 1960 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times, in 2011 and again in 2012
Predecessors VI: Fischer-Euwe 1960 (Part II) Ray also plagiarising Bobby Fischer
The revolution should not be plagiarised Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times, 2012
An unlikely customer Ray recycles Kramnik-Leko notes in four columns yet misses the main story - plus sock-puppeting
At this crucial crossroads 2010 Times notes reappearing in 2011 and 2004 Spectator notes that reappeared in the Times in 2010
Rich in resources Four consecutive Times columns copied from old Spectators - as is Ray's current Spectator column
Predecessors VII: Reti-Bogoljubow 1924 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times, 2011
Less is more of the same Ray's 2010 game notes that he reused in 2012
A Penrose is a Penrose is a Penrose is a Penrose is a Penrose Ray using the same game notes five times
Predecessors VIII: Spassky-Bronstein 1960 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Spectator, 2010 and 2012
Ray at halfway Ray recycling six columns in the space of eight days
Lending Ray Anand Ray plagiarising Viswanathan Anand in the Times in 2011
Predecessors IX: Petrosian-Gligoric 1970 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Spectator in 2012
Six of one The Adams-Carlsen notes Ray's used six times
Predecessors X: Smyslov-Botvinnik 1958 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2011 and 2013
Self publishing Ray's columns have promoted Hardinge Simpole more than thirty times without mentioning that he was a director
Predecessors XI: Capablanca-Bogoljubow 1922 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Spectator in 2012
Reeling in the years The last week's Times columns cribbed from Ray's Petrosian book, itself part-copied from a 2002 Spectator column
Predecessors XII: Botvinnik-Smyslov 1954 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Spectator in 2009 and the Times in 2011
The multiple plagiarisms of Ray Keene: Private Eye says more The Eye on the "bow-tied chess plagiarist"
Global consequences Ray after 9/11: recycling a piece he'd already used in 1997 - and twice in 1995.
In the hope of exploiting Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2011 and the Spectator in 2013
Bad Max Ray plagiarising Euwe and his translator Münninghoff in the Times in 2012
Checked and expanded upon Ray plagiarising the late Tony Miles in the Spectator and Times, 2003 to 2013
Would you really, Mr Kamm? Oliver Kamm says plagiarism would cost him his job. What about Ray then?
Predecessors XIII: Korchnoi v Karpov 1978 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2013 (June 10)
Makes a pitiful impression Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2013 (June 11)
Up to this point an exact replica Ray copying his Spectator notes wholesale into his 1985 world championship book
The time for decisive action is approaching Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2013 (June 12)
Plus ça change Ray's slightly edited version of his own campaign to run FIDE
Predecessors XIV: Spassky v Petrosian 1969 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2013 (June 8)
Guess who's coming to dinner? No sooner elected than Andrew Paulson's dining with previously "toxic" Ray
Predecessors XV: Petrosian v Botvinnik 1963 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2013 (June 7)
What goes around comes around Ray's "world record": four and a half hours became three, an all-junior field became "opponents"
Predecessors XVI: Botvinnik-Petrosian 1963 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2013 (June 6) and 2011
Predecessors XVII: Capablanca-Lasker 1921 Ray plagiarising Kasparov in the Times in 2013 (June 4) - and what of June 3?
Mo' Money Ray, Lord Pearson of Rannoch and the continuing House of Lords dinners scam
The perceptive reader will doubtless observe Ray plagiarising Korchnoi in the Times (June 3)
Predecessors XVIII: Zukertort-Steinitz 1886 Ray plagiarising Korchnoi in the Times (June 1)
Private Eye: Penguin Takes The Biscuit The Eye keeps readers up to date on Ray
Probably a mistake Ray plagiarising Bill Hartston in the Spectator in 2012
Probably a mistake II Ray plagiarising the same Hartston piece in the Spectator in 2004
Dirty Little Secrets Ray repeating his plagiarism of Kasparov in his new Harper Collins book
With his original manner Ray using notes to Lasker-Chigorin in the Times, Xmas 2012/3, that he'd already used during Xmas 2011/2...
Predecessors XIX: Lasker-Chigorin 1895 ...and Ray plagiarised both sets from My Great Predecessors
Dirty Little Secrets II More repeated plagiarism in Ray's new Harper Collins book
False notes How Ray plagiarised My Great Predecessors on Chessgames.com
False notes II Ray copied those plagiarised Chessgames.com notes from the Spectator
False notes III More copyright infringement in Ray's Chessgames.com file
Dirty Little Secrets in Private Eye Ray's plagiarised Times Little Book reaches Private Eye
From a Penguin to a Swan Ray's new fake-Polish-nobility friends
Ray at 66 Ray at 66, a much-dimished figure
Dirty Little Secrets III Ray repeating his plagiarism of Korchnoi in the Times Little Book
Dirty Little Secrets in Private Eye - again More Private Eye on the Times Little Book
Another lot of Dirty Little Secrets The Little Book recycles unacknowledged not just the Times but the Spectator
A cheat at chess Would Ray, the multiple plagiarist, be made welcome at the Varsity Match?
Wells Wells Wells More Raygiarism: it turns out that Ray ripped off Ian Wells' notes not once but twice.
Nosh-up Ray breakfasts with Nigel Short: they speak of financial misconduct in chess federations.
Ray in Romford Ray moves into inspirational speaking with his charlatan chums
Assuming wrongly Ray's chessgames.com commentary copied from Reappraisal and pilfered from Tartakower and Du Mont
Play it again, Sam Sam Sloan publishes a book by Ray: unsurprisingly it's full of copyright theft and old recycled notes
That alternative reality again... CNN sack a correspondent for "multiple instances of plagiarism". So when will Ray go the same way?
Trust is not the word How does the ECF come to be giving Ray free publicity bearing in mind why he's not a member?
A direct transposition Ray's chessgames.com notes which unaccountably fail to mention where they were published before
A morality play The chessgames.com notes derive from the Spectator, in which they plagiarise translators' notes in Reappraisal
Ins and outs How come the Times sack Simon Barnes but keep Ray on?
As a species we are not large like the Whale Ray's latest dubious venture with charlatan Tony Buzan
Ray Saves The Day How curious, Ray has followed this blog in doing aseries on exchange sacrifices
They're Already Off In which we recycle Ray's 1971 game against Bob Wade
Harman In My Head Massive plagiarism by a Times correspondent - though this time it's not Ray but Neil Harman
The bubonic plagiarist Private Eye calls Ray a "bubonic plagiarist". Meanwhile, Neil Harman is suspended by the Times.
Without actually looking at the score Ray's 1974 advice to chess journalists - check the score before you comment.
Umpteen exposes in the Eye and elsewhere Once more Private Eye calls Ray a bubonic plagiarist.
My favourite moves XV Karpov’s great 1978 innovation, reported on by Ray.
The flipside of Dominic Lawson III How Dominic Lawson never gave a stuff about his friend Ray ripping us off.
The flipside of Dominic Lawson IV Ray and Dominic Lawson's 1983 book, chock full of recycled material.
The flipside of Dominic Lawson V If Lawson becomes ECF President, Ray gets his hands close to our money.
I knew Nick Clegg was desperate but I didn't realise he was that desperate Ray dines with Nick.
None other than Ray plugs his sister several times in the Times and Spectator. Neither mentions that they are related.
Clearly not a sacking offence Ray in the Eye again: Neil Harman out at the Times, but surely they don't sack plagiarists?
Why didn't Petrosian play 3.e3? Ray reusing Reappraisal notes in the Spectator on the sly
In energetic fashion Ray copying out old columns in the Times this week, including one set he's now used four times
A quick summary may be helpful Ray uses his column to plug the book out of which he has plagiarised many other columns
Well aware of this game Xmas 1990 at the Spectator and Ray reuses notes from March in the same year
Barking back More live-chess-with-dogs-as-pieces plans
What the well-dressed chess plagiarist is wearing today Ray dresses down at Wijk Aan Zee
Feedback Ray's latest recycling capers reported to the Times, with the usual non-response
New plagiarist, old plagiarist So Rupert Murdoch does sack plagiarists....just not Ray
But not yet Ray reports that chess is becoming compulsory in Spanish schools, which as yet it isn't
A bad smell The Varsity Match appears to be there to showcase Ray and his crony Tony Buzan
...and I am glad Ray's Little Book of Chess Plagiarism is remaindered
End of the Immortal Ray's Times notes on the Immortal Game, overlooking that the notes he copied say there was no checkmate
Announcement The blog apologises to Ray for all its allegations and pays a sum to the Brain Trust
Bad advice Enquiry as to Tony Buzan's Olympic-squad-training claim is referred to Ray, his biography. Ray does not elaborate
What's the point? Stephen Moss quotes Ray as wondering what the point is of cheating. Well Ray should know
Nigel: the experts speak Ray writes about the Short/hardwiring controversy in the Spectator and calls on the expertise of...Tony Buzan
Fifty Ray plagiarising Kasparov, Panov, Euwe and Alekhine in the Times, 20 April 2013.
Tribute act Ray pays tribute to Walter Browne by using his notes as a labour-saving device
Sitges: took the hint A Ray note from 1978 affectionately recalled
DG XXV: "Verghese, chess, Alzheimer’s" Ray turns his hand to chess-Alzheimer's nonsense
This position is drawn even without White's b-pawn An odd error in a Ray column from 1977
No consolation Why quote Barry Martin in a piece about women's chess? Because he's Ray's old mate
Anderton emerges David Anderton's ECF career, marred by three scandals where he acted in support of Ray
Stenden joke Ray and the Tony Buzan circus go for a day trip to Leeuwarden
Death of a subscription Nigel Davies still thinks of Ray as some kind of benefactor of chess rather than a spiv
Well worth repeating Ray's game notes in the Times for 20 November 2015: taken-word-for-word from his column for 11 December 2014
Much too Keene Ray giving out prizes at Gibraltar and being chummy with Leontxo García
My favourite moves XV Ray praising Reti's 15. Qa1 in the Times, 27 August 2011
Highly typical When Ray praised Reti's 15. Qa1 he was plagiarising Hans Kmoch and My Great Predecessors
Traditions Once again Ray casts an embarrassing shadow over the Varsity Match

The Keene-Miles affair
Keene's Gambit Ray accused: the Sunday Times piece where the allegation was made in print
Keene's Move Ray's version of events
Checked Again Ray's version: Miles' rebuttal
Stop me if you've heard this one before Ray and Miles: link to Miles' full account in Kingpin

RDK Annotates
A Trip and a Game, Down Memory Lane
Ray Keene: You Read It Here First

Ray Could Play
I: A win v Botvinnik and a draw with Karpov
II: RDK v Jakobsen, Esbjerg 1981
III: Hutchings v RDK, Barcelona zonal 1975
IV: RDK v Eric Holt, a loooong game.
V: RDK spots something his friend Michael Stean had missed.
VI: RDK knew how to sac the exchange.
VII: RDK simultaneously wins the British Championship and ends the Penrose era.
VIII: The first game with Tony Miles.
IX: 40-year-old preparation still stands up.
X: A Ray favourite against the Nimzo, a double exchange sac and a Master Game clip.

I want my IQP - dashing sacrifices from Raymondo

Black Queen Murder Mystery
Somebody dial 999?
- a mysterious map

Times Chess Man Cracks 'Missing Woman' Riddle
- DCI Mondo exercises his little grey cells

Definitely Got Something To Do With Chess V
- it almost became a pilot for a TV detective series

Grandmaster
- a scene from the pilot

Probably Got Nothing To Do With Chess VII
- a Ray Keene v 'deadly assassin' thriller

Ray Could Soothsay
- some frontpages from The Times, a big article in the Sun ... and RDK getting a little bit carried away with himself afterwards

Nightmare over for The Riddler
- The suspect, Colin English, was found not guilty ... so what exactly was Raymondo's part in this investigation?

Also see

What Happened Next - Ray saves the day
What Happened Next? XII - Ray in Tbilisi (What Happened Next XII)
My Favourite Moves XI - Ray on Nimzo

Dirty Little Secrets index

Posts relating to Ray's heavily copied and plagiarised Little Book of Chess Secrets (Harper Collins, 2013).

Dirty Little Secrets I
Dirty Little Secrets II
Dirty Little Secrets in Private Eye
Dirty Little Secrets III
Dirty Little Secrets in Private Eye again
Another lot of Dirty Little Secrets

[This index created 9 February 2014 - please ignore posting date!]

Nigel Short index

The worst move on the board Nigel blunders into a mate in one
Nosher's nashers Nigel commendably refuses to blame his teeth
JB's favourite moves II Nigel's famous win against Gurevich
Staying power Nigel's win destroyed Gurevich as a player. Or maybe it didn't.
Oh Hou we laughed Nigel loses to thirteen-year-old
Three aphorisms and an explanation Nigel loses to Timman
England's Number One Nigel plays Michael Adams
Tick, tick, tick ... IX Nigel's phone battery runs low and costs him the game
It was Adams, and it was Short Nigel has short draw with Adams, we have suspicious minds
Once bitten, twice wise Nigel unwisely repeating his successful opening against Kasparov
If you want to get ahead, don't get a hat Nigel decides eleven-year-old may be cheating, insists he removes hat
Is this pig? Nigel's juvenile sexual attitudes
Swiss Toni writes for New In Chess Nigel's juvenile sexual attitudes, again
Nosher on the rampage Nigel turns over some Dutchmen
Some tourists go too far Nigel thinks the sexual exploitation of women is hilarious
When we were Kings XVII Nigel's Life In The Day from 1977
De Mooi The Merrier Nigel goes on tour with CJ de Mooi
Sauce for the Nosher Nigel complains that arbiters can't lose their titles - though neither can grandmasters
Short retort Nigel talks cobblers about Isle of Man tournament, New in Chess decline to print email saying so
I don't call you f**k Face Nigel objects to his nickname "Nosher"
Untitled simul post Nigel 's simul tour a great success
Ten years ago this week Nigel's notorious "sleeping with his girlfriend" obituary of Tony Miles
Short Stories Nigel's share of the responsibility for the Sheffield fiasco
Keeping things vague Nigel using the ECF as a stooge - or is he Kasparov's stooge?
Something's gone wrong again Nigel's court case loses and Nigel should resign
Doctor No Nigel's "Doctor" title and why it's not correct to use it
Chunks of memory Nigel beating Timman - Ceefax memories
Short of knowledge Nigel is forgotten by the youth of today
Let's talk about Nigel Nigel still thinks sex tourism is hilarious
Popular front Nigel still boasting about bringing the CAS case he hid from the ECF
Daggers drawn Was Nigel linked to the ECF coup?
Nosh-up Odd of Nigel to complain about financial irregularities in FIDE while breakfasting with Ray Keene
Welcome back my friends... Nigel drops a half-point in a simple rook ending you'd have thought he knew
Balance Nigel's notorious Miles obituary makes it to Norwegian television
Settling old accounts John Roycroft's curious letter wondering when the 1993 match accounts will be made public
Cynicism and gullibility Nigel's odd silence about financial malpractice where his friends are concerned
Short run Should Nigel have been picked for the Olympiad?
How cynical can you be? A sceptical view of Sinquefield's ten million dollars, in which Nigel claims to believe
Kilts and haggis In which Nigel proves how ignorant he can be about the Scots
Pro choice Nigel, not apparently old enough to know better, renders "pro" as "prostitute"
Nice work if you can get it II Nigel and Dominic Lawson: a history of seeing one another all right
Baby you can't drive my car Nigel on gender: women are hard-wired differently which explains poor driving skills
Nigel Short's World of Science Nigel's women-are-inferior "science" isn't all that scientific or all that scientifically presented
Nigel: the experts speak But among these experts....in the Spectator, one Tony Buzan.
What wasn't in New In Chess 2015/5 What actual scientists said about Nigel's women-aren't-suited-to-chess rant
Grossly immature Nigel calls other people "grossly immature" and Stephen Moss fails to spot the irony
Magic words Nigel sees a gulf between top players and club players - I wonder why that might be?
Speaking as an outsider Nigel is feeling all sorry for himself about the reaction to his sexist "hard-wired" claims
Not especially of big concern for us 1998: Nigel goes to Elista and human rights abuses are not especially of big concern.
Fatwasn't Nigel goes on the radio to say chess has been banned in Saudi Arabia - it hasn't

Susan Polgar index

Who'd have thought it?
Saving energy
A bit previous
Unlearned journal
What's this then?
Doctor Garry III: dogs that don't bark
Doctor Garry II: de nos jours
Crowd pleaser
Another figure of fun
Never happened before
Almost here
Susan Polgar's Brilliant Brain

Dominic Lawson index

Ten years ago this week That Miles/Short obituary (published by Lawson) and a letter in comments
Global consequences Lawson one of a number of Spectator editors to preside over Ray's recycling
Nothing to see here Ray runs a game of Lawson's in his Spectator column
The flipside of Dominic Lawson Lawson's hate-football piece in the Mail. Is this the kind of ECF President we want?
The flipside of Dominic Lawson II More Lawson gems: "inscrutable Asiatic countenance" the pick of the bunch
The flipside of Dominic Lawson III Why would Lawson, who didn't care about Ray ripping off the BCF, be a good president now?
The flipside of Dominic Lawson IV How Lawson was connected to Ray's industrial-scale recycling habit, early on
The flipside of Dominic Lawson V Lawson's had thirty years to see what Ray is - and hasn't. So don't make him President.
Dress rehearsal Would a serious organisation claim to "address sexism" and then just ignore Lawson's comments?
Border country Why would Lawson think that Latvia or Russia weren't in Europe?
How Dominic Lawson helps the English Chess Federation address sexism So, asks Lawson, how does your wife want to spend your money?
Nice work if you can get it Lawson goes nutpicking among the comments boxes (and gets abusive)
Nice work if you can get it II Lawson and Nigel Short: a history of seeing one another all right
Nice work if you can get it III Lawson doing what he does best, which is patronising women
Well aware of this game How much did Lawson know about Ray's recycling of notes, or his other misdeeds?
"There is no sexism in chess" Did Lawson really say that?
Not making waves Lawson's boring New in Chess piece about his boring radio programme
No such thing as sexism in chess I ask Lawson to clarify his "no sexism" comments, he does not reply

Once was enough index

Once was enough I (Latvian Gambit 3.Nxe5 Nc6)
Once was enough II (Portuguese Gambit)
Once was enough III (Czech Benoni)
Once was enough IV (Eingorn Winawer)
Once was enough V (Vienna Variation)
Once was enough VI (Marshall Attack)
Once was enough VII (Chebanenko Slav)
Once was enough VIII (Accelerated Dragon)

Also:

Once was enough - or maybe it wasn't (Berlin Wall)

605 million index

Figure of fun The claim, made by Andrew Paulson, but not by YouGov - completely debunked.
By the time that we got to Moscow we were half a billion strong Malcolm Pein makes it
Half a billion chessplayers can't be wrong CSC makes it (and comments trace "half a billion" back to 2000)
Those figures of fun again FIDE and Chessdom make it
Unlearned journal Susan Polgar makes it
Why didn't Petrosian play 3.e3? AGON make it
600 million again Leontxo García makes it
Hundreds of millions David Edmonds makes it
Numbers game The Politiken Cup makes it
Palin in comparison The Financial Times makes it
Who'd have thought it? Susan Polgar makes it - well 700 million in her case
An evening with Ilya Merenzon Ilya Merenzon makes it
Higher! Higher! Kirsan makes it and bumps it up to 800 million
Hundreds of millions people Dylan Loeb McClain makes it, more or less, on behalf of AGON

Chessgames.com index

False notes Ray Keene's plagiarised annotations also appear on chessgames.com
False notes II The annotations also previously appeared in the Spectator in 2007, which chessgames.com forget to mention
False notes III Keene's notes on chessgames.com are a massive case of copyright theft
Tempting fate More unattributed Keene notes copied out on chessgames.com
Assuming wrongly Chessgames.com thank Ray Keene for notes which, in fact, he stole from Tartakower and du Mont
A direct transposition Chessgames.com are made aware that their notes are stolen from other sources: they ignore the information