Originally posted by philidor positionI remember a sweeping Anand victory he played in, what would it be, 2004, which after the game he said he had home prepped in 1996 😛
Kasparov has a story about this, it was in "how life imitates chess." I don't remember now the whole storyline, but it was something like he only got a look at 8 positions set up on different boards in something like a cocktail for a few seconds, they were taken from important events like strong tournaments or WC matches or something like that and ...[text shortened]... ely what the other player mentions.
These guys are good at this stuff, that's sure 🙂
Originally posted by scacchipazzo"Never forget Fine was writing mostly in the forties."
Enlighten us with a few quotes. Never forget Fine was writing mostly in the forties. Don't judge him by todays standards. His was a brilliant mind.
If you mean: "Fine's idea that chess tournaments are full of guys defending their willies" This may be nonsense. So what? A lot of what Freud wrote is now considered nonsense. You would not say Freud was ...[text shortened]... be but he also wrote one of the best ones ever also. Have you read "Basic Chess Endings"?
Bobby Fischer's Conquest Of The World Chess Championship
I think the title of the book gives you an indication Fine was writing in 1973/74.
I no longer have the book to give direct quotes. But I can recall the sections
about Fischer fearing people touching his willie. Uttoer twoffle.
His Basic Chess Endings was lorded at it's time but computers have found errors
in his analysis. It's also a very difficult to read. Jammed up print and few
diagrams (compared with a modern treatment).
I do have his Art of the Middle Game A book much praised by Purdy
and quite rightly so.
Chess should stay on the chessboard and not be dragged onto a psychiatrist's
couch. It's a game.
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Originally posted by greenpawn34What's wrong with seeing psychoanalytical relationships between bihops harrasing queens as phallic little evil thingies?
"Never forget Fine was writing mostly in the forties."
[b]Bobby Fischer's Conquest Of The World Chess Championship
I think the title of the book gives you an indication Fine was writing in 1973/74.
I no longer have the book to give direct quotes. But I can recall the sections
about Fischer fearing people touching his willie. Uttoer twoffle. ould stay on the chessboard and not be dragged onto a psychiatrist's
couch. It's a game.[/b]
His chess writing of the forties:
Basic Chess Endings, by Reuben Fine, 1941, McKay. Revised in 2003 by Pal Benko. ISBN 0-8129-3493-8.
The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, by Reuben Fine, 1943. Revised in 1989. McKay, ISBN 0-8129-1756-1.
Practical Chess Openings, by Reuben Fine.
The Middlegame in Chess, by Reuben Fine. ISBN 0-8129-3484-9.
I know he wrote some after thsi, I was not aware of any writings of any consequence.
He wrote more than credibly on psychology, but indeed his writings on this topic are mostly after the fifties. I have his modernized Basic Chess Endings brought up to date by Benko. I like the book just fine!
Modern Chess Openings, sixth Edition, by Reuben Fine.
Chess the Easy Way, by Reuben Fine, 1942. 1986 Paperback re-issue. ISBN 0-6716-2427-X
Chess Marches On, by Reuben Fine, 1946.
Dr. Lasker's Chess Career, by Reuben Fine and Fred Reinfeld, 1935.
I was somewhat off as to his other writings:
Freud: a Critical Re-evaluation of his Theories, by Reuben Fine (1962).
The Healing of the Mind, by Reuben Fine (1971).
The Development of Freud's Thought, by Reuben Fine (1973).
Psychoanalytic Psychology, by Reuben Fine (1975).
The History of Psychoanalysis, by Reuben Fine (1979).
The Psychoanalytic Vision, by Reuben Fine (1981).
The Logic of Psychology, by Reuben Fine (1985).
The Meaning of Love in Human Experience, by Reuben Fine (1985).
Narcissism, the Self, and Society, by Reuben Fine (1986).
The Forgotten Man: Understanding the Male Psyche, by Reuben Fine (1987).