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Raymond Keene OBE is the UK's senior Chess Grandmaster, Master of Arts from Trinity College, Cambridge, and correspondent for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The Gulf News, The Australian and the Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo. He holds the world record for authoring 164 books on Mind Sports, thinking and genius. He has organised three world championships involving Garry Kasparov. Ray was twice the winner of the Oscar for world's best writer on chess. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded Ray the title Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in person for services to chess and charity. He organised, along with Tony Buzan, the very first Man v Machine World Championship in any thinking sport (Dr Tinsley v Chinook London 1992 World Draughts Championships). Ray was the first western chess grandmaster to compete in China (1981). He is also the holder of the Gold Medal of the Chinese Olympics Association. He is the Chairman of the English Chess Association and of the Howard Staunton Society. Amongst Ray Keene's 164 books are biographies of the Chess Grandmasters: Howard Staunton, Aron Nimzowitsch and Leonid Stein. He also organised and founded, with Tony Buzan, the World Memory Championships, which reached its 21st year in 2012.