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Synopsis
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 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 so on) are also included. The work also includes a brief biography of Fine and aspects of his career which merit further study: his contribution to endgame and middlegame theory, his methods and style of play, his exhibition play, career results, indexes of players and of openings, brief biographical data about Fine's opponents, and a comprehensive bibliography that includes his contributions to journals.
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Review
"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).
About the Author
Former field archaeologist Aidan Woodger compiles chess books in his spare time. He lives in Halifax, West Yorks, United Kingdom.
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- PublisherMcFarland & Co
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0786416211
- ISBN 13 9780786416219
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages400
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