Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Reuben Fine

Born: October 11, 1914
Died: March 26, 1993 (aged 78)
Bio: Reuben Fine was an American chess grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology. He was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the mid 1930s into the early 1950s.
Known for:
- Basic Chess Endings (1941)
- The ideas behind the chess openings (1943)
- Chess the easy way (1941)
- The middlegame in chess (1952)
- The world's great chess games (1951)







