Miles and Keene were at the forefront of the English chess explosion of the next 20 years, and they were followed by other British grandmasters such as Michael Stean, John Nunn, Jon Speelman and Jonathan Mestel.

Keene represented England for nearly two decades in international team events, beginning with the 1966 Chess Olympiad in Havana at age 18.

He followed with the next seven straight Olympiads: Lugano 1968, Siegen 1970, Skopje 1972, Nice 1974, Haifa 1976, Buenos Aires 1978, and La Valletta 1980.

He was the originator and organiser of the annual Staunton memorial chess tournaments, one of the few regular events for masters held in London.

[9] The Oxford Companion comments: "By a combination of ability and shrewdness, Keene has attracted considerable sponsorship and has proved himself capable of efficient and rapid organisation of chess events".

He organised the 1993 PCA World Championship match between Kasparov and Nigel Short in London, for which he was one of the official commentators along with Grandmasters Jonathan Speelman and Daniel King.

Following the match, however, he retained the trophy in lieu of money he believed he was owed by the collapse of Brain Games: Kramnik did not receive it until 2008.

[1] Aron Nimzowitsch: a Reappraisal (1974) is much admired and was revised and translated into Russian in 1986,[1] with an algebraic edition published in English in 1999.

The statistical methods used have not met with wide approval, but the player biographies and games were regarded by one book as providing a good overview.

[1] In 1978, along with Michael Stean and Jacob Murey, Keene helped Viktor Korchnoi during the 1978 World Chess Championship Karpov–Korchnoi match.

Virtually every word and variation in the four and a half pages devoted to Lisitsin's Gambit in Keene's book was stolen."

He went on: "The latest instance is the discovery[16] by Justin Horton that material from the first volume of Kasparov’s My Great Predecessors series has been misappropriated by Raymond Keene in The Spectator."

Private Eye describes the plagiarism as involving "substantial amounts of text lifted from chess books, mainly Kasparov's but also other authors".

[17] One case involves Keene's notes to a game between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, which he annotated for The Times on 8 December 2011 and The Spectator on 5 January 2013.

Levy further alleged that Keene changed his story several times as to the purpose of the payment and the reasons why the new company had been set up.

[24] Levy wrote:As one would expect, our original investors were equally astounded at the news and extremely angry at Keene.

Now they had learned that one of their two key consultants, the one with money-raising skills, had been working to set up a rival company.Nothing, however, was proven against Keene (who had swiftly paid an identical sum, i.e. £50,000 to MSO, making the subsequent explanation that this constituted a personal loan from himself) and his new company went on to organise the world championship match later that same year.

At much the same time, according to Levy, BGN purchased a web site and two domain names from Chess and Bridge Limited.

[28] During the course of the 2000 Braingames World Championship Keene was accused of heavy-handed behaviour in having journalist John Henderson removed from the press room with the assistance of bouncers.