--- title: "3 Raymond Keene Quotes - Famous Chess player (How to play the opening in chess)" description: "Raymond Dennis Keene is an English chess grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-raymond-keene-77637.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Raymond Keene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-raymond-keene-77637.jpg) # Raymond Keene (1948) Chess Player United Kingdom **3** quotes in **18** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Raymond Keene is a chess player from the United Kingdom, best known for *How to play the opening in chess*. ## Quick Facts About Raymond Keene Born January 29, 1948 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Chess Player Notable works How to play the opening in chess ## About Raymond Keene Raymond Dennis Keene is an English chess grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author. He won the British Chess Championship in 1971, and was the first player from England to earn a Grandmaster norm, in 1974, at the Nice Olympiad. In 1976, he became the second Englishman to be awarded the Grandmaster title, and he was the second British chess player to beat an incumbent World Chess Champion. He represented England in eight Chess Olympiads. ## Awards & Honors Officer of the Order of the British Empire ## Quotes by Raymond Keene > [Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-keene/campo-as-everyone-in-chess-recognized-had-a-2600-rating-as-a/) Raymond Keene [Chess](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chess/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/raymond-keene-77236_chess_campo-as-everyone-in-chess-recognized-ha_1318703.jpg) > [... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-keene/i-bid-farewell-to-my-readers-in-the-hope-that-they-have-formed-their/) Raymond Keene [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/893/raymond-keene-77236_books_i-bid-farewell-to-my-readers-in-the-hope_1460466.jpg) > [(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-keene/3-is-it-a-system-ultimately-i-suspect-this-is-a-question-about-which/) Raymond Keene [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45f/raymond-keene-77236_books_3-is-it-a-system-ultimately-i-suspect-th_2947316.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-keene/#itemlist", "name": "Raymond Keene Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Raymond Keene" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-keene/campo-as-everyone-in-chess-recognized-had-a-2600-rating-as-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/raymond-keene-77236_chess_campo-as-everyone-in-chess-recognized-ha_1318703.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/raymond-keene-77236_chess_campo-as-everyone-in-chess-recognized-ha_1318703.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/raymond-keene-77236_chess_campo-as-everyone-in-chess-recognized-ha_1318703.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.” — Raymond Keene", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "... 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