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Tony Buzan: Mapping the man behind Mind Mapping

Raymond Keene OBE

Tony Buzan achieved global fame as the inventor of Mind Mapping, a technique for note taking and creative ideas which has transformed educational theory and practice around the world. In…

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Chess: Problems, Play & Personalities

Barry Martin

Five years of insights from the chess pages of London’s KCW Today newspaper

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The Spectator Book of Chess: An Anthology 2001-2004

Raymond Keene, OBE

Ray Keene has been writing the chess column every week in the venerable Spectator magazine since 1977. Since then not a week has gone by without a chess article appearing…

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Complete Book of Beginning Chess: 10 Easy Lessons to Winning

Raymond Keene, OBE

Ten easy lessons teach beginning and novice players everything they need to play and win at chess! This new edition, perfect for beginning and intermediate players, is designed with a…

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

Raymond Keene, OBE

Fifty of Ray Keene’s columns written for The Article and The British Chess Magazine, in which his primary aim is to connect chess to wider political, scientific and cultural concerns.

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The Official Biography of Tony Buzan: The Man Who Introduced the World to Mind Maps

Raymond Keene, OBE

Take a look inside the mind of Tony Buzan, the man who invented Mind Mapping and taught the world a whole new way of thinking. Tony Buzan has authored or…

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World Chess Championship: Kramnik Vs Leko 2004

Raymond Keene, OBE

With FIDE (the World Chess Federation) claiming that its Tournament in Libya - in fact, little more than a rapidplay open - was the world title clincher, this match for…

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Winning with the Nimzo-Indian

Raymond Keene, OBE

Sharp winning strategies for both sides in a popular defence.

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Karpov - Korchnoi 1978

Raymond Keene, OBE

The 1978 world chess championship in the Philippines was the most riotous of modern times. Pitting the soviet defector Korchnoi against the golden boy of the soviet establishment - Karpov…

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Karpov - Korchnoi 1981: Massacre in Merano

Raymond Keene, OBE

In 1981 - World Champion now for 6 years - Anatoly Karpov had reached the height of his powers. He was a master of sharp modern opening systems, thought swiftly…

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The Sunday Times Book of Chess

Raymond Keene, OBE

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Kasparov’s Sicilian Strategies

Raymond Keene, OBE

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

Raymond Keene, OBE

Fifty of Ray Keene’s columns written for The Article and The British Chess Magazine, in which his primary aim has been to connect chess to wider political, scientific and cultural…

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Grandmaster Strategy

Raymond Keene, OBE

Ray Keene selects and annotates his most interesting games against such giants as Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Botvinik, Mikhail Tal, Jan Timman, John Nunn, Tony Miles and Svetozar Gligoric. Originally published…

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The Chess Combination from Philidor to Karpov

Raymond Keene, OBE

Traces the development of combinational thought from the early days of chess events up to the reign of world champion Anatoly Karpov. By identifying key recurring elements in the decisive…

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The Evolution of Chess Opening Theory: From Philidor to Kasparov

Raymond Keene, OBE

Why are certain openings fashionable and why do others vanish? Is this based on an objective evaluation or on mere whim? How were Openings principles first elaborated and by whom…

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Nigel Short: Best Games of a World Title Challenger

Raymond Keene, OBE

First published in Great Britain by Batsford in 1992 –T.p. verso.

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How to Beat Gary Kasparov

Raymond Keene, OBE

Even Kasparov is human. This book analyses all of his major lost games up to 1990 and tries to draw common conclusions about how to defeat the very greatest. Gary…

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How to Play the Nimzo-Indian Defence: A Key Introduction to a Major Defence

Raymond Keene, OBE,Shaun Taulbut

A companion volume to the author’s ‘Winning with the Nimzo

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Chess for Absolute Beginners

Raymond Keene, OBE

Anyone - beginners of all ages - can learn how to play chess with the help of this clear manual, now in its second edition.

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Manoeuvres in Moscow: Karpov-Kasparov II: Kasparov Seizes the World Crown

Raymond Keene, OBE,David Goodman

In early 1985 Florencio Campomanes - the now disgraced former president of FIDE, the World Chess Federation - halted the World Title challenge from Garry Kasparov without result , thus…

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The Centenary Match: Karpov-Kasparov II

Raymond Keene, OBE,David Goodman

This book recounts the third of the five chapters in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. In the eyes of many this conflict symbolised…

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The Modern Defence: 1…P-Kn3: a Universal Panacea to 1 P-K4, P-Q4 or 1 P-Qb4

Raymond Keene, OBE,George S. Botterill

This Hardinge Simpole Openings Classic reprint represents a landmark in the evolution of openings theory. This ground-breaking treatise on the revolutionary Modern Defence became a Bible for those adventurous players…

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Staunton’s City

Raymond Keene, OBE,Barry Martin,Clive Davey

Howard Staunton was the iconic polymath who essentially founded British chess. He was the dominant player of his time and after his 1843 victory against St Amant in Paris he…

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Carlsen v Caruana: FIDE World Chess Championship London 2018

Raymond Keene, OBE,Byron Jacobs

In 2018 the World Chess Championship was contested between the champion, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and the American, Fabiano Caruana. This book, co-authored by two leading chess journalists, features extensive and…

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Understanding the Caro-Kann Defense: Learning a reliable and flexible opening for black

Raymond Keene, OBE,Andy Soltis,Edmar Mednis,Jack Peters,Julio Kaplan

Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in depth the thinking behind a defence that has been a favourite of champions such as Capablanca, Botvinnik…

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