Lessons from My Games: A Passion for Chess - Softcover

Fine, Reuben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486244296 ISBN 13: 9780486244297

Publisher: Dover Publications, 1983

Synopsis

This rich book distills the experience gained during one of the most brilliant chess careers of our time - a career that has been distinguished equally in chess play and in chess analysis. Lessons from My Games combines the best of Reuben Fine the famous grandmaster, who has been a top contender in many of the century's greatest tournaments, with the best of Reuben Fine the writer, whose matchless books have been landmarks in chess history. Here are Fine's games with World Champions Capablanca, Alekhine, and Euwe, with Dake, Horowitz. Flohr, Kashdan, Tartakower, Lasker, Botvinnik, Reshevsky, and other masters. Here are scintillating games of ten-second blindfold chess, at which Fine is sensational. And perhaps most important for both the amateur and professional, here in generous profusion are Fine's incisive notes and comments on every game, with searching discussion of alternatives, blunders, brilliancies, and turning points. Here, indeed, are not only. the outstanding games of a great career but the lessons from the games, drawn as only Fine could draw them. All this would be enough, but this book offers something else as well, for enlivening the accounts of the matches and tournaments in which he played are Reuben Fine's personal impressions of his great antagonists. As an observer of human nature, he is entertaining and astute, and he shows how the ability to take a foe's psychological measure can help to win. Reuben Fine has been a member of three U. S. World Championship Teams. He tied for first prize with Keres in the great AVRO tournament of 1938 and has won the U. S. Speed Championship four rimes. Among his famous books are The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings,The Middle Game in Chess, Basic Chess Endings, Practical Chess Openings, and his great and continuing best seller, Chess the Easy Way. 246 diagrams.

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About the Author

Reuben Fine was born on October 11, 1914. He was both one of the world's strongest grandmasters of chess and one of the world's leading authorities on psychoanalysis. Reuben Fine 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0486244296
• ISBN 13: 9780486244297
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256