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Chess as "the touchstone of the intellect": From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe came one of the most encouraging sentences about the famous game.
With Raymond Keene we discuss the connection between literature and chess. Raymond Keene OBE is an English chess grandmaster and 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. He represented his country in eight Chess Olympiads.
More about Raymond Keenes new book "An abridged version of Goethes 'Faust'" in the second part of our interview.
The link to Raymond Keenes article:
www.thearticle.com/the-touchs...
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[@exildoc]

Sir Raymond, you’ve mastered a Herculean task. Translating such a play and even more difficult to abbreviating it and still honouring the beauty of language by finding an equivalent in English: chapeau. I’m having a copy and can enthusiastically recommend to get hold of one. As always With your essays I found the introduction so stimulating.

[@goethe-museumdusseldorf3957]

Thanks a lot for your comment! We are also very impressed.