Reuben Fine vs Miguel Najdorf (1948)

Reuben Fine vs Miguel Najdorf
New York Invitational 1948 · Sicilian Defense: Najdorf. Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation (B91) · 1-0

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Given 38 times; par: 66 [what's this?]

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Feb-07-02		bishop: Fine first cuts off all counterplay (the black rook is not allowed in the white camp) then he proceeds to eat up black's pawns.So in the end blacks ..d5 does not turn out well.

Feb-20-04		Whitehat1963: No exit.

Nov-15-06		Ryan Razo: This only shows how important attacking initiative and cooperation between pieces are. Fine game from Fine.

Aug-31-09		sleepkid: Has to be opening preparation by Fine. Fine was renowned for being a Queen's Pawn player (the AVRO tournament of 1938 being a noted exception - see his loss to Keres there), and almost never played King's Pawn openings. Here he obviously had prepared a variation against Najdorf's Sicilian, and threw down the gauntlet by playing P-K4. (As a side note: All of Fine's other games with white from this same tournament are Queen's Pawn openings.)

Jul-26-10		drnooo: Quite a record for boty guys: it makes you wonder who was better, also makes you wonder how Fine would have fared in the 48 worlds championship. He always did allright against Botvinnik. Behind Fischer Fine has to be the second best chess player ever from the States, flat out no contest.

Jan-28-11		ozmikey: A classic game. You couldn't get a much simpler or more compelling demonstration of the power of 2Bs versus B+N. 13...d5?! "smells" all wrong to me - loosening all of the pressure against e4. Even after the more logical 17...Bxe3 18. Qxe3 Black can't take on c2, because of 19. Rac1 Qxb2 20. Na5! winning a piece. FWIW, I reckon both of these guys would have given Botvinnik a fair shake had they competed in 1948.

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