Overview
American Grandmaster Reuben Fine grew up in the East Bronx in an impoverished Russian-Jewish family, learning to play chess from an uncle at the age of eight. During his high school years, his stake winnings and coins earned from playing at a Coney Island concession helped support his family. After graduating from college, he decided to become a professional player. Though his active international career was brief, his accomplishment and talent are unmistakably significant. This comprehensive collection of 659 of Reuben Fine's tournament and match games is presented chronologically, in context, and with annotations from contemporary sources. More than 180 other games and game fragments (rapid transit, correspondence, exhibition, blitz, and others) are also included. The work also includes a biography of Fine, and notes aspects of his career that merit further study: his contribution to endgame and middlegame theory, his methods and style of play, and his exhibition play. Fine's career results, brief biographical data about his opponents, a comprehensive bibliography that includes his contributions to journals, and indexes of players and of openings complete the work.
Full Product Details
Author: Aidan Woodger
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 27.90cm
Weight: 0.862kg
ISBN: 9781476675329
ISBN 10: 1476675325
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 28 August 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Introduction Early Years A Spell in Europe Annus Mirabilis—1938 Back to College and Domestic Chess A Chess Amateur Appreciations and Assessments CAREER HISTORY AND COLLECTED GAMES Junior Master in the New York Clubs, 1929–1932 United States Open Champion and the Pasadena International, 1932–1933 The International Team Tournament at Folkestone, 1933 Pushing to the Forefront of American Chess, 1933–1934 More International Experience, 1934-1935 Open Champion Once More The Warsaw Olympiad and Łódź, 1935 The Grandmaster Title, 1935–1936 The First United States Championship Tournament, 1936 A Return to Europe, 1936–1937 Swedish Punch, 1937 A Trip to Soviet Russia, 1937 Sharing the Honours with Keres, 1937 A Drop in Form, 1937 The Stockholm Team Tournament, 1937 More Poor Form and a World Championship, 1937–1938 The Second United States Championship Tournament, 1938 The Great A.V.R.O “Candidates” Tournament, 1938 U.S Open Champion Again, 1939–1941 U.S Speed Champion, 1942–1945 International Tournaments and Matches, 1945–1951 Fine as a Correspondence Chess Player Simultaneous Exhibition Games and Miscellany CAREER RESULTS TABLES Tournaments Individual Matches International Team Tournaments (Olympiads; Others) New York Metropolitan Chess League Miscellaneous Match Games Correspondence Games U.S Speed Championships APPENDICES 1. Biographical Data about Fine’s Opponents 2. Time Controls and Rates of Play 3. Fine’s Notebooks at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C 4. Results of the A.V.R.O Participants During the 1930s 5. Historical Elo Ratings and U.S.C.F Ratings 6. Fine as Author 7. Further Research Possibilities 8. Fine on Blindfold play BIBLIOGRAPHY Tournament Books United States Chess Federation Yearbooks Soviet Chess Yearbooks Biographical Games Collections General works Periodicals Openings Index—Descriptive (to game numbers) Openings Index—MCO (to game numbers) Players Index (to game numbers) Annotators Index (to game numbers) Sources Index (to game numbers) General Index (to page numbers)
Reviews
Beautiful, clothbound volume written by [a] meticulous researcher and published by a company which obviously cares about quality -- Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Free Press The overall quality of the games is high. The roster of Fine's opponents is a 'Who's Who' of American and international chess of the time. Of the serious games, the great majority are annotated, often in considerable detail...extensive research to find annotations not just from Fine's and other easy-to-find works, but from many sources. -- ChessCafe.com ChessCafe.com Beautifully produced...valuable historical volume -- British Chess Magazine British Chess Magazine World-class...interesting and important...not only is the content outstanding, the production is attractive as well...intriguing...well researched...important...highly recommend[ed] -- Chess Today Chess Today Tremendous...splendid...adds tremendously to our knowledge...plenty of incredible stuff. Like all McFarland & Company, Inc., books this work on Reuben Fine is handsomely produced and designed to last forever...very easy on the eye while offering the reader pages filled with content...highly recommended -- IM John Donaldson JeremySilman.com Four stars -- Chess Horizons Chess Horizons A solid contribution to the story of an age in American chess...the chess historian and the diehard chess aficionado will want to add this title to their library...money well spent -- Chessville.com Chessville.com The author has managed to dig up around 882 Fine games all pleasantly chronological ordered and well analysed with contemporary sources...wonderful -- Chessmail.com Chessmail.com Beautiful...most comprehensive collection of Fine's work to date...a most useful collection of Fine's games which deserves to be included in every chessplayers' library...a very nice present...very fine publication...a super present for any keen chess player -- Merseyside Chess Magazine Merseyside Chess Magazine Painstakingly compiled...Woodger did great research...comprehensive...marvelously produced -- The Washington Post The Washington Post
four stars --Chess Horizons; beautiful, clothbound volume written by [a] meticulous researcher and published by a company which obviously cares about quality --Winnipeg Free Press; the overall quality of the games is high. The roster of Fine's opponents is a 'Who's Who' of American and international chess of the time. Of the serious games, the great majority are annotated, often in considerable detail...extensive research to find annotations not just from Fine's and other easy-to-find works, but from many sources. This is one of the few books we have seen with an 'Annotator's Index'...the notes are handled quite well, Woodger often harmoniously blending multiple annotators in one game, making intelligent cross-references between sources, and judiciously adding his own computer-assisted comments, which our own spot-checking found to be quite accurate...Woodger has done fine work to add significantly to the canon of an important player...the history is competently written and well researched...wealth of archival data...physically the book is up to McFarland's usual high standard...we like this book a great deal...an impressive work, presenting in great detail the career of an important chess master who played many outstanding games. We recommend it very highly --ChessCafe.com; a solid contribution to the story of an age in American chess...the chess historian and the diehard chess aficionado will want to add this title to their library...money well spent --Chessville.com; the author has managed to dig up around 882 Fine games all pleasantly chronological ordered and well analysed with contemporary sources...wonderful --Chessmail.com; beautifully produced...valuable historical volume --British Chess Magazine; beautiful...most comprehensive collection of Fine's work to date...a most useful collection of Fine's games which deserves to be included in every chessplayers' library...a very nice present...very fine publication...a super present for any keen chess player --Merseyside Chess Magazine; world-class...interesting and important...not only is the content outstanding, the production is attractive as well...intriguing...well researched...important...highly recommend[ed] --Chess Today; painstakingly compiled...Woodger did great research...comprehensive...marvelously produced --The Washington Post; tremendous...splendid...adds tremendously to our knowledge...plenty of incredible stuff. Like all McFarland & Company, Inc., books this work on Reuben Fine is handsomely produced and designed to last forever...very easy on the eye while offering the reader pages filled with content...highly recommended --IM John Donaldson (JeremySilman.com).
four stars --Chess Horizons; beautiful, clothbound volume written by [a] meticulous researcher and published by a company which obviously cares about quality --Winnipeg Free Press; the overall quality of the games is high. The roster of Fine's opponents is a 'Who's Who' of American and international chess of the time. Of the serious games, the great majority are annotated, often in considerable detail...extensive research to find annotations not just from Fine's and other easy-to-find works, but from many sources. This is one of the few books we have seen with an 'Annotator's Index'...the notes are handled quite well, Woodger often harmoniously blending multiple annotators in one game, making intelligent cross-references between sources, and judiciously adding his own computer-assisted comments, which our own spot-checking found to be quite accurate...Woodger has done fine work to add significantly to the canon of an important player...the history is competently written and well researched...wealth of archival data...physically the book is up to McFarland's usual high standard...we like this book a great deal...an impressive work, presenting in great detail the career of an important chess master who played many outstanding games. We recommend it very highly --ChessCafe.com; a solid contribution to the story of an age in American chess...the chess historian and the diehard chess aficionado will want to add this title to their library...money well spent --Chessville.com; the author has managed to dig up around 882 Fine games all pleasantly chronological ordered and well analysed with contemporary sources...wonderful --Chessmail.com; beautifully produced...valuable historical volume --British Chess Magazine; beautiful...most comprehensive collection of Fine's work to date...a most useful collection of Fine's games which deserves to be included in every chessplayers' library...a very nice present...very fine publication...a super present for any keen chess player --Merseyside Chess Magazine; world-class...interesting and inportant...not only is the content outstanding, the production is attractive as well...intriguing...well researched...important...highly recommend[ed] --Chess Today; painstakingly compiled...Woodger did great research...comprehensive...marvelously produced --The Washington Post; tremendous...splendid...adds tremendously to our knowledge...plenty of incredible stuff. Like all McFarland & Company, Inc., books this work on Reuben Fine is handsomely produced and designed to last forever...very easy on the eye while offering the reader pages filled with content...highly recommended --IM John Donaldson (JeremySilman.com).
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Former field archaeologist Aidan Woodger compiles chess books in his spare time. He lives in Halifax, West Yorks, United Kingdom.
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