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    Reuben C. Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was an American chess player, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess...
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    R.C. Griffith, J.H. White, Reuben Fine, and P.W. Sergeant, Modern Chess Openings, David McKay (6th ed. 1939). Reuben Fine, Ideas Behind the Chess Openings...
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  • Look up Reuben, Reuven, Ruben, or Rubén in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Reuben or Reuven is a Biblical male first name from Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (Re'uven)...
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  • Engineering Banco Central del Ecuador Basic Chess Endings, a book by Reuben Fine BCE Inc., formerly Bell Canada Enterprises BCE Place, Toronto, Canada...
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    record, however, was uneven, and rising young stars like Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, and Mikhail Botvinnik threatened his title. Negotiations for a title...
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    sources such as the New York Times in 1894, Emanuel Lasker in 1908, and Reuben Fine in 1952 all do the same. Many modern commentators divide Steinitz's reign...
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    fourteenth games were also won by Capablanca, and Lasker resigned the match. Reuben Fine and Harry Golombek attributed this to Lasker's being in mysteriously...
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  • Flohr, Kashdan, Tartakower, Grünfeld, Ståhlberg, and Lajos Steiner. Reuben Fine wrote of him: The story of the Indian Sultan Khan turned out to be a...
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    Folkestone, United Kingdom  United States 39 Isaac Kashdan, Frank Marshall, Reuben Fine, Arthur Dake, Albert Simonson  Czechoslovakia 37½ Salo Flohr, Karel Treybal...
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    years and was obviously stronger. Reuben Fine elected not to play, for reasons which are not totally clear (see Reuben Fine#1948 World Championship). There...
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    ½ point ahead of current World Champion Max Euwe and rising American stars Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky, and 1 point ahead of ex-champion Alexander Alekhine...
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  • and Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky (from the United States). FIDE soon accepted a Soviet request to substitute Vasily Smyslov for Flohr, and Fine withdrew...
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  • tempo by threatening to trap Black's dark-square bishop. According to Reuben Fine, the Evans Gambit poses a challenge for Black since the usual defences...
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     148–170. Fine, Reuben (1952). "Max Euwe". The World's Great Chess Games. André Deutsch (now as paperback from Dover). pp. 192–200. Fine, Reuben (1952)....
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  • publishes its first rating list in the November issue of Chess Life. Reuben Fine is first with a rating of 2817 and Sammy Reshevsky is second with 2770...
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  • 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf...
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    tournament between the eight strongest players in the world. Paul Keres and Reuben Fine tied for first place, with Keres winning on tiebreak by virtue of his...
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    Flohr, behind Alekhine, at a major tournament in Bern. According to Reuben Fine, these results established Euwe and Flohr as Alekhine's most credible...
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  • Mikhail Tal, 2856 Harry Nelson Pillsbury, 2853 Vasily Smyslov, 2842 Reuben Fine, 2842 He made a third list correcting by 2 points per year before 2017...
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    Akiba Rubinstein, Gyula Breyer, Rudolf Spielmann, Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, David Bronstein, and Miguel Najdorf. Arpad Elo, the inventor of the...
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    Bronstein (USSR) Oldřich Duras (Czechoslovakia) Max Euwe (Netherlands) Reuben Fine (USA) Salo Flohr (USSR) Ernst Grünfeld (Austria) Paul Keres (USSR) Boris...
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    1890s, he had a short career, dying at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Reuben Fine wrote of him "Playing over his early games is like reading Keats's poetry:...
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    1st–2nd at Margate with Reuben Fine at 7½/9 (+6−0=3), 1½ points ahead of Alekhine. In Ostend, he tied 1st–3rd places with Fine and Henry Grob at 6/9 (+5−2=2)...
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    Ernest Jones published an article of psychoanalytic discussion of Morphy. Reuben Fine published a longer article in which Morphy was mentioned. Both articles...
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    Margate Reuben Fine Paul Keres Ostend Reuben Fine Henri Grob Paul Keres Bad Nauheim, Stuttgart, Garmisch Max Euwe Semmering/Baden Paul Keres Moscow Reuben Fine...
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    the Western Open at the time. He shared the 1934 US Open title with Reuben Fine at Chicago. Reshevsky won the US Chess Championship in 1936, 1938, 1940...
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  • 1932 Minneapolis Reuben Fine 34 1933 Detroit Reuben Fine 35 1934 Chicago Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky 36 1935 Milwaukee Reuben Fine 37 1936 Philadelphia...
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    often given his decision in favour of a rival..." On the other hand, Reuben Fine, a 20th-century player, wrote, "There is a curious contrast between his...
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    third (after Alexander Alekhine) in Dresden 1936, and second (after Reuben Fine) in Stockholm 1937. In 1938 he drew a match against Paul Keres. Following...
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    Najdorf placed second at New York City with 6/9, two points behind Reuben Fine. He tied for 4th–5th with Héctor Rossetto at Mar del Plata, with 10/17...
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