Editing Raymond Keene (section)

===Korchnoi===
[[Viktor Korchnoi]] alleged that when acting as his second in the [[World Chess Championship 1978|1978 World Championship match]], Keene broke his contract by writing a book about the match (which appeared three days after the match finished) having specifically signed an agreement "not to write, compile or help to write or compile any book during the course of the match". Korchnoi commented: "Mr Keene betrayed me. He violated the contract. It was clear that while Mr Keene was writing one book and then another, Mr Stean was doing his work for him."<ref>"Keene's Gambit" by Nick Pitt, ''The Sunday Times'' magazine, 13 January 1991, p. 20.</ref>

Attempts to defend Keene were rebutted by Michael Stean's mother, who stated that she was in a position to know what was in Keene's contract since she herself had typed it. Keene, she claimed, had signed this despite having already negotiated a contract with Batsford to write a book about the match. She described "a premeditated and deliberate plan to deceive" and noted that Keene's conduct had come under suspicion during the match.<ref>"When Keene was taxed by Petra Leeuwerik and Viktor Korchnoi as to whether he was writing a book during the match, as he was spending so much of his time in the Press Office sending telex messages, Keene emphatically denied it." ''Chess'', February 1980, pp. 84–85, letter from Mrs Jean Stean.</ref><ref>[http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-jean-stean-had-seen.html What Jean Stean had seen] Streatham and Brixton Chess Blog, 19 April 2013.</ref>