CHESS PLAYER

Raymond Keene

1948 - Today

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Raymond Dennis Keene (born 29 January 1948) 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. In 1976, he became the second Englishman (following Tony Miles) to be awarded the Grandmaster title, and he was the second British chess player to beat an incumbent World Chess Champion (following Jonathan Penrose's defeat of Mikhail Tal in 1961). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Keene has received more than 124,942 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Keene is the 262nd most popular chess player (down from 237th in 2019), the 6,221st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,674th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

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  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Raymond Keene ranks 262 out of 461. Before him are Alisa Galliamova, Anna Muzychuk, Lev Psakhis, Sergei Tiviakov, Zdenko Kožul, and Alexander Chernin. After him are Manuel Aaron, Peter Leko, Israel Albert Horowitz, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alireza Firouzja, and Cristina Adela Foișor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Raymond Keene ranks 751. Before him are Joe Corrigan, Judith Miller, Hurley Haywood, Amani Abeid Karume, Kiyomi Kato, and Anthony Moore. After him are Jim Crawford, Colin Todd, Guy Standing, Ali Mohamed Shein, Byron K. Lichtenberg, and Mariann Aalda.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Raymond Keene ranks 6,221 out of 8,785. Before him are Barbara Murray (1929), Bonobo (1976), Derek Redmond (1965), Michael Oliver (1985), Anthony Moore (1948), and Steve Coppell (1955). After him are Penny Mordaunt (1973), Jim Crawford (1948), Ronnie Corbett (1930), Dario Franchitti (1973), Maggie O'Farrell (1972), and Martin Atkinson (1971).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Raymond Keene ranks 15. Before him are John Owen (1827), John Nunn (1955), Nigel Short (1965), Tony Miles (1955), Harry Golombek (1911), and Fred Yates (1884). After him are Stuart Conquest (1967).

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