Fifty Shades of Ray: Chess in the year of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Author:   Raymond Keene, OBE
Publisher:   Zeticula Ltd
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9781843822318


Pages:   302
Publication Date:   07 May 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Fifty Shades of Ray: Chess in the year of the Coronavirus Pandemic


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Inspired by both Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) and 'The King', an anthology of the witty and provocative chess columns of the Dutch Grandmaster, Jan Hein Donner, Ray Keene here collects his thoughts and writings on the year 2020 - both in chess and the wider world. His reflections include the impact of Covid-19 on the popularity of chess, the remarkable influence of the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit', the growing army of teenage Grandmasters, the online pivot of chess competition and the emergence of chess entrepreneurs, such as World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.. Like Donner, Ray uses chess as a metaphor for observations on art, culture and civilisation.

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Author:   Raymond Keene, OBE
Publisher:   Zeticula Ltd
Imprint:   Hardinge Simpole Publishing
ISBN:  

9781843822318


ISBN 10:   1843822318
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   07 May 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Provocative, challenging, colourful, spicy, here is a menu of delights ... It even looks as good as it tastes, with elegant chess diagrams a most pleasing feature. You will not necessarily like or agree with everything, but you will leave the book with your mind buzzing ... David Taylor, British Chess Magazine, October 2021.


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Grandmaster Ray Keene OBE has enjoyed a career which spans many aspects of chess, including numerous victories in international competitions across five continents, organisation of three world chess championships involving Garry Kasparov, creation of the first ever world championship in any Mind Sport between a human and a computer (Dr Marion Tinsley v Chinook in draughts, London 1992) and the world record authorship of 204 books on Mind Sports, thinking and genius, with translations into sixteen different languages.

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