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Ray Keene OBE

Smoke and Drinkers

Great minds rarely conform. The golden age of chess produced champions whose brilliance was matched only by their colourful eccentricities.

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Ray Keene OBE

Go and the Atomic Bomb

As Hiroshima vanished in the first atomic explosion of war, two Go masters calmly reset their scattered stones and continued…

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Ray Keene OBE

Draughts, also known as Checkers

Before computers conquered chess, one extraordinary mathematician proved that human intuition could still outthink silicon.

Mind Mapping

Tony's and Ray's Mind Maps

Tony Buzan’s prime invention was the Mind Map.

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Ray Keene OBE

Smoke and Drinkers

Great minds rarely conform. The golden age of chess produced champions whose brilliance was matched only by their colourful eccentricities.

Ray Keene OBE

Milton’s Cosmic Game of Chess

Some games determine kingdoms. Milton imagined one that determined the destiny of mankind.

Ray Keene OBE

Brave New Game

Every generation believes it has discovered a better way to improve humanity. Inevitably, it begins by rewriting the rules.

Ray Keene OBE

The Art of the Draw

Not every deadlock is a stalemate, and not every defeat is a checkmate. Chess teaches us the difference.

Ray Keene OBE

The Obliteration of Memory

Empires are conquered twice: first by armies, and then by the erasure of memory.

Ray Keene OBE

Virgil’s wrong door - this way to the egress

The greatest literary mysteries are not always hidden in forgotten manuscripts. Sometimes they have been lying in plain sight for…

Tony Buzan

Raymond Keene Interviews Professor Tony Buzan

Every complex machine comes with an instruction manual. Tony Buzan spent a lifetime asking why the most remarkable machine of…

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An idea whose time has come

The greatest unexplored frontier is not outer space, but the twelve hundred grams of living matter between our ears.