Editing Raymond Keene (section)

===Organiser===
Keene worked as a chess event organiser. He was the originator and organiser of the annual [[Howard Staunton|Staunton]] memorial chess tournaments, one of the few regular events for masters held in London.<ref>[[Howard Staunton]] memorial tournament [http://howardstaunton.com/hsmt2009/Home.html]</ref> 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".<ref name="OxfordCompanion"/><sup>p196</sup>

Keene brought [[Victor Korchnoi]] and [[Garry Kasparov]] together for their 1983 [[Candidates Tournament|Candidates']] semi-final match in London as part of the [[World Chess Championship 1984|1984 World Championship cycle]]; the semi-final match between [[Vasily Smyslov]] and [[Zoltán Ribli]] was also played at the same site. He organised the 1984 [[Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World]] match in London within two weeks, enabling the event to go ahead on time after the previous plans had fallen through, described by [[John Nunn]] as "a magnificent organisational achievement at such short notice."<ref name="OxfordCompanion"/>

Keene has also been involved in organising several World Championship finals matches. He arranged for the first half of the [[World Chess Championship 1986]] return match between Kasparov and [[Anatoly Karpov|Karpov]] in London. The match, however, made a loss for the [[English Chess Federation|British Chess Federation]] (BCF) and, for reasons never clarified, he resigned from his position in the BCF shortly afterwards. He organised the 1993 [[Professional Chess Association|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 J. King|Daniel King]]. He was the instrumental force behind 'Brain Games', which organized the [[Classical World Chess Championship 2000|World Championship match in 2000]] between Kasparov and [[Vladimir Kramnik]]. 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.<ref>New in Chess, 2008, number 8, Nic's Café, p. 6.</ref> Brain Games later collapsed in controversial circumstances.