Guardian of supreme excellence in the game

I've not really had my eye on Ray for a while, for one reason or another, so it was only just yesterday morning that I came across his Times column for October 24. Here's how it starts.

 Here's how it goes on.

And here's the same move annotated on page 15 of the first volume of My Great Predecessors (Garry Kasparov, Everyman, 2003).

Ray's at it again.

Black's twentieth:

Black's twenty-third:

Black's thirty-first:

Well that's as clear a case of plagiarism as you could possibly ask to see, isn't it? Even by the standards of Ray Keene, Britain's most prolific plagiarist.

As you probably guessed, there's more where that came from.


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