Dr Emmanuel (Manny) Rayner (born 11 June 1958) is a British

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player and FIDE Master. He won the

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in 1976. Dr Rayner studied mathematics at

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and obtained a

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from

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. He is currently working on Regulus-based projects at Geneva University in Switzerland. He has stated on

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that his favourite novels are Anthony Powell's saga A Dance to the Music of Time. He has also published two humour books entitled ''What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante'' (2012) and ''If Research Were Romance and other Implausible Conjectures'' (2013), compiling

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s originally written by him for the

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social website. He has also written the humorous books ''The New Adventures of

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: An Extravagance'' and ''Everything You Need to Know to Write a Work of Satire in Trump's America''. In addition to these, he has written two books on the Regulus Grammar Compiler, called ''Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler (Studies in Computational Linguistics)'' and ''The Spoken Language Translator''.

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Emmanuel (Manny) Rayner
bio at the Welsh Chess Union * British chess players 1958 births Living people Chess FIDE Masters {{England-chess-bio-stub