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Sep-09-10 | | rapidcitychess: <wordpunph::Combinations are as natural as a baby's smile-Reuben Fine"> Correction: It is this:
"In positions such as this, combinations are as natural as a baby's smile"
I think he was speaking about this game,
Fischer vs Larsen, 1958
<Fine wrote: "In such positions, combinations are as natural as a baby's smile."> -Robert "Bobby" Fischer from MSMG.
Just wanted pinpoint accuracy as usual. :) |
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Sep-19-10 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Reuben Fine was great chessplayer and one of the best writers of all times !! |
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Sep-19-10
 | | HeMateMe: And, a Fine sandwich! |
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Oct-02-10 | | wordfunph: Reuben Fine, one of American's great players, managed to play four games at once on blindfold simul, with the stipulation that he could take no more than ten seconds per move! - Eric Schiller (The Big Book of Chess) |
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Nov-06-10 | | Lt.Surena: It is amazing to see the number of excuses Fine gave over the years for not
playing in 1948 world championship:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
Another scared/frightened chicken-heart
gave the same excues after 1972. |
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Feb-27-11
 | | Penguincw: < "Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard." > A wonderful quote by Reuben Fine. |
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May-05-11
 | | Penguincw: Quote of the Day
< "Really bad moves can always be refuted by general principles." > |
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Jul-24-11
 | | Phony Benoni: Reuben Fine is not often thought of as a prodigy, but he had his share of teenage victories. Fischer was 14 when he became the youngest to win the US Open/Western Championship, but the youngest prior to him was Fine in 1932 at age 17. |
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Sep-21-11 | | whiteshark: Quote of the Day
" <Combinations> have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because <combinations> are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. "
-- Fine |
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Sep-22-11 | | Albertan: Whiteshark I believe you version of the quote is incomplete.I found this one: "Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter." - Rueben Fine |
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Dec-20-11
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< "Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard." > --- Fine |
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Dec-20-11 | | AlphaMale: What a ridiculous thing to say. |
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Dec-20-11 | | Petrosianic: What, you didn't understand it? |
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Dec-20-11 | | AlphaMale: I understood it to be ridiculous. |
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Dec-20-11
 | | Penguincw: < AlphaMale: I understood it to be ridiculous. > I don't think it was meant to be ridiculous. |
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Dec-20-11
 | | Phony Benoni: He probably wrote it around the time of World War II, which would make it a striking contemporary image. |
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Feb-12-12
 | | Penguincw: Quote of the Day
< "I never read a [chess] book until I was already a master." > --- Fine |
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Mar-01-12 | | whiteshark: < Quote of the Day
< Really bad moves can always be refuted by general principles. >> -- Fine
coz o'wise u wudn't call "em r'ly bad" |
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May-11-12 | | Helios727: In Fine's book "The Middle Game in Chess", what does he mean when he says "artificial pin"? Is not a "pin" just a "pin"? |
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May-11-12 | | Petrosianic: You're giving us a quote out of context, so I have to guess. But at a guess, I'd say true pin is where the move is flat out illegal, but an artificial pin is where the move is legal but just looks like a really bad idea. Like, for example, a piece shielding a queen might seem to be pinned if you think he can't risk exposing the queen to attack, but supposing he can? |
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May-20-12 | | Helios727: Okay. So maybe an artificial pin is one where you can afford to sacrifice the shielded piece. |
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May-20-12 | | Helios727: Next question. In another section of Fine's book (The Middle Game in Chess) he talks about the power of the "minority attack" (by pawns) on the queen side of the board. However, in a later section he talks about the power of the "queen side pawn majority." How does one determine when the "queen side pawn majority" is an advantage, versus the disadvantage it can impose from the opponent's potential "minority attack"? |
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Sep-19-12 | | Conrad93: Where can you find the results for old tournament games. For example, how would I find the results for the Zurich Tournament (1953)? |
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Sep-19-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <Conrad93> There are many tournaments that have been the subject of member collections. If you click on the option <Game Collections>, you will be able to search for them. When you search for "Zurich 1953", one of the results will be: Game Collection: WCC Index [Zurich 1953] which contains all the games. Usually these will contain crosstables as well; unfortunately, this one is an exception. However, you can find the crosstable at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich.... <chessgames.com> is working on a series of historical tournament pages like those created for current tournaments, but that is in the future. For historical questions that don't fit on a player or game page, you might ask at Biographer Bistro. |
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Sep-19-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <Helios727> In general, the "Minority Attack" is a middle-game strategy aimed at creating a positional advantage. The "Queen Side Pawn Majority" is exploited in the endgame, though it can influence middle game strategy. Here is a typical Minority Attack from Larry Evans vs H Opsahl, 1950 after <14.a4>:  click for larger viewWhite will follow with b4-b5. If Black trades twice on b5, then his b- and d-pawns become weakened. If Black permits White to trade on c6, then Black's c-pawn becomes backward and very weak. Evans' play in the game shows how to exploit the Minority Attack. The advantage of the "Queen Side Pawn Majority" is tied in with that of the "outside passed pawn", the idea being that it is advantageous to have a passed pawn as far away from the kings as possible. Since kings normally castle on the kingside, having a queenside majority can be an advantage. It can affect planning in the middlegame, since the player with the queenside majority may more likely to seek exchanges which bring the endgame nearer. |
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