Reuben Fine

Reuben Fine ( October 11, 1914 *, † March 26, 1993 in New York City ) was an American chess player and a psychoanalyst.

Life

Fine grew up in New York, where he spent the greater part of his life. He was an eyewitness to the 1927 staged in New York International Chess Tournament. From 1929 he was a regular guest at the Marshall Chess Club and the Manhattan Chess Club, where he was one of the strongest rapid chess and blitz chess players soon. 1932 and 1933 he won the " Western Championships ', the forerunner of the U.S. Open Championships, before Samuel Reshevsky, 1934, he told him the first place. In chess tournament in Pasadena he remisierte 1932 against the reigning world champion Alexander Alekhine. In 1933 he first participated at the Chess Olympiad, which he won with the team the United States on the third board.

In his second Olympics in 1935, he scored on first board a positive result and so won the confidence to compete against the best chess players in the world. He subsequently won the greatly occupy international tournaments in Hastings (1935 /36) and Zandvoort ( 1936). In the same year he shared the world-class tournament in Nottingham with Max Euwe and Reshevsky third place. The chess magazines Sahovsky Glasnik and Chess expecting him in 1936 to the five best players in the world. He still played with great success at the tournament in Amsterdam ( 1936), Hastings ( 1936/1937 ), Stockholm, Moscow, Leningrad, Margate, Ostend and Semmering- Baden (all 1937), while in 1937 less did well in Kemeri. At the Chess Olympiad 1937 he achieved the best result on the second board. He was Euwes 's second in its rematch against Alekhine in 1937 and spent several months in the Netherlands. He then returned with his Dutch wife back to New York to work as a psychologist further pursue his career. Until the autumn of 1938, he again played chess, namely the AVRO tournament which was attended by the entire world leaders and Fine with Paul Keres shared first place. According to Garry Kasparov he surpassed his colleagues at that time particularly in terms of strategic depth. After Fine played only in the United States.

In open U.S. Championships, he continued to be very successful, while each Reshevsky had to leave the first place in the closed championship in 1938 and 1940. In July 1941 he reached his best Historical Elo rating of 2762. He was at times also ranked one of the subsequently calculated world rankings. In 1941, he also wrote the chess book " Basic Chess Endings ", which became the standard work of the final theory. Mikhail Botvinnik called it the first monograph on chess endgames of a scientific nature due to its depth, its conciseness and clarity of his presentation. During the Second World War he worked as an analyst for the U.S. Navy. In 1946 he played in Moscow with an international match USA - USSR.

Fine was provided as a participant in the World Chess Championship 1948, played there but not. For his resignation several reasons were given. He was working on his doctoral thesis on The personality of the asthmatic child and was unhappy that the tournament until 1948 and not, as originally provided in 1947 took place. He was also disappointed that it did not support the American Chess Federation. Larry Evans wrote later, Fine had therefore waived because he feared collusion between the Soviet players.

He did not return to active play and worked as a psychoanalyst. Nevertheless, he received in 1950 awarded by the FIDE Grand Master title. Fine had 25 tournament games against the chess world champion Emanuel Lasker, Jose Capablanca Raoul, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, and played, from which he scored 14 points. Garry Kasparov emphasizes that fine so is the one chess player who had scored against world champions the best result. 1963 Fine played a free game against Robert James Fischer, Fischer won in 17 moves and recorded in his book My 60 Memorable Games.

Fine has published numerous books, both about chess and about psychoanalysis. In the study the psychology of the chess player he tried to build on the theories of Sigmund Freud, the chess psychology to create a new foundation and to interpret the psychology of the individual world champions such as the Psychoanalytic backgrounds of the game itself.

Died in 1993 Reuben Fine to a heart attack.

Works (selection)

  • Dr. Lasker 's chess career (1935, with Fred Reinfeld )
  • Basic chess endings (1941 )
  • The ideas behind the chess openings Public (1943 )
  • Chess marches on (1946 )
  • Lessons from my games (1958 )
  • Freud, a critical re -evaluation of his theories (1962 )
  • The psychology of the chess player (1967, dt The Psychology of the Chess Player )
  • The healing of the mind (1971 )
  • The development of Freud 's thought (1973 )
  • Bobby Fischer's conquest of the world 's chess championship (1973 )
  • Psychoanalytic psychology (1975 )
  • The world 's great chess games (1976, dt The greatest chess games in the world)
  • A history of psychoanalysis (1979 )
  • The psychoanalytic vision (1981 )
  • The logic of psychology (1983 )
  • The meaning of love in human experience (1985 )
  • Narcissism, the self, and society (1986 )
  • The man forgotten (1987, dt The forgotten man)
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