Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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)