Chess Marches On! - Softcover

Fine, Reuben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4871875113 ISBN 13: 9784871875110

Verlag: Ishi Press, 2012

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Book by Fine Reuben

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Reseña del editor:

This is a collection of 50 of the finest games played during the period 1941-1944 by the world's greatest masters. Each game has an introduction and is copiously annotated in such a way that a mere beginner can follow the workings of the world champion. A vivid record of activities in the leading centers of the world with fifty examples of brilliant games played by modern chessmasters. The games include masterpieces by Alekhine, Botvinnik, Euwe, Fine, Horowitz, Kashdan, Keres, Najdorf, Pinkus, Reshevsky, Smyslov, Stahlberg and other experts. Each game is profusely illustrated. Introductions and Explanatory notes to moves provide the reader with both entertainment and instruction. The games are nicely laid out in descriptive notation. Included with each of the games is a brief biography of the players. Most of these games first appeared in the "Game of the Month" column in Chess Review magazine.

Biografía del autor:

Reuben Fine was both one of the world's strongest grandmasters of chess and one of the world's leading authorities on psychoanalysis. Reuben Fine (1914-1993) was remarkable not merely for having two successful careers, but for achieving top levels and being world renowned in both fields. Fine took up chess in his youth, became a master as a teenager and at age 17 won his first of seven US Open Chess Championships. He was invited to the great masters tournament in Pasadena 1932, won by World Champion Alekhine, one of the strongest tournaments ever held in the United States. Fine's victories in a series of European tournaments in 1936 and 1937 established Fine as a top contender for the World Chess Championship. This led to his greatest result ever, his tie for first in the strongest chess tournament ever played, AVRO 1938, a double round-robin tournament to determine who would be the next challenger to World Champion Alexander Alekhine. Fine tied with Paul Keres, won more games than anybody, and finished ahead of future champion Mikhail Botvinnik, current champion Alekhine, former world champions Max Euwe and Capablanca, and Grandmasters Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr. Fine won both of his games against Alekhine. AVRO 1938 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Fine ** 0½ 1½ 10 10 11 ½½ 1½ 8½ 2 Keres 1½ ** ½½ ½½ 1½ ½½ 1½ ½½ 8½ 3 Botvinnik 0½ ½½ ** ½0 1½ 1½ ½1 ½½ 7½ 4 Euwe 01 ½½ ½1 ** 0½ 0½ 01 1½ 7 5 Reshevsky 01 0½ 0½ 1½ ** ½½ ½½ 1½ 7 6 Alekhine 00 ½½ 0½ 1½ ½½ ** ½1 ½1 7 7 Capablanca ½½ 0½ ½0 10 ½½ ½0 ** ½1 6 8 Flohr 0½ ½½ ½½ 0½ 0½ ½0 ½0 ** 4½ Note that Keres played easy draws, winning only three games and drawing the rest, whereas Fine won six games, lost three and drew only five games. Fine was born on October 11, 1914 was still only 23 at the time of his victory at AVRO 1938. There is little doubt that he could have and probably would have become the World Chess Champion, except that World War II intervened. During the war, Fine could not travel to Europe, so he concentrated on writing chess books. His books covered all aspects of the game. He wrote Modern Chess Openings, Basic Chess Endings and The Middle Game of Chess during this period. He also played in several US Opens and US Championships. He won the US Open seven times, which was every time he played. However, somehow he could never win the US Championship, usually finishing second to Reshevsky.

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• Verlag: Ishi Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 4871875113
• ISBN 13: 9784871875110
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234