Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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)