chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

114 FINE
1931 (+4=5 t), and !61pnze (+6=3) abead oi
rlonR at Hastings 1935-6.
Leaving the USA i. June 1936, he made a
renariable tour ofEurope lasting 19 months. He
played in i3 lournamenrs and won 8 ol then, won a
match againslfiHr-BERc in 1937 (+4:2-1).n^dc
ihe highest se.ond-boa.d sco.e (+9:5-l) ar the
Slockholm Olympiad 1937. s6 EUwE's second in
tbe nine week world chanpionship match oI 1937,
gale numerous sinullaneous displays, had an
operation for appendicitis, and found himself a
Duich bride. His rour.ament victories were:
zandvoort 1936(+6=5) ahead of Euwc and (EiBi
oslo 1936 ahead of Bohrt Amslerdam 1936
(+4=2-1) equal with Euwc ancad of aLEXH,NE;
Srockholm 193? (+7:2) abead of stihlbe.sl
Moscos 1937 (+4=2 1); Leningrad 1937
(+3=2)r Margale 1937 (+6=3) eqBalvith Keres
ahead of Alekhinei and Ostend 193? equal with
Kcrcs and dRoB. He played in tbe strongest lwo
evenis held du.ing this period: NoltinShan 1936,
when be came third (+5=9) equal uilh Eu*e and
RBsEvs( half a point behind capABuNcA and
Rnw'NN'K,he,d of Alekhine,nd Flohr: ,nd
Semme.inS:Baden 1937, when he came se@nd
(+2=12) afier Keres ahead oI Capablanca.
Reshevsky, andFlohr. On hisnexlvisitto Europe
Fineplayed a1^vro l93S,lhestrongestloumanent
held up ro lhal rine, and cane list (+6=5 3)
After Alelhine died in Mar. 1946 there was Io. a
tjme no world champion. Fine iater Nrole:'Inasnuch
as (eres and I tied for fist prie in the
A\.Ro toumanenl, *hich Nas oilcially l2l designated.
. . torlhcselection of thechallerger. . . il
secmstomeonlylairthatKeresa.dFineshouldbe
lhted as co-champions lor the penod 19.1G1948,
rDE tbouSht diflerently, and organi4d a match
tournament lor the world.hampionship to be beld
in lhesp.ingol1948. Fine was faed witb a difiicull
choice. Havins found chess unpronlable he had
long bcen studying for a profesion (Fychoanal,sis)
and the lonrnament would have clashed
Mlh preparations for his fin l e$nina(ons. He
declined to play- passed his exaFs. and *i up a
snccesslul p.adi.e in Ma.hattan. He scored his lasi
important roumanent victory (+7=2) ahead or
NATDoN at New York (Dec.) 19q8. A few weeks
later he drcw a march with NajdD'f (+2=4-2).
Fine edited the sixtb and best edition ofModen
Ches Openings (19:19) and vrote ,6r a1?$
End,rss (1911), a cla$ic fro6 Nhicn ascneration
ofplayers learned thc ENDCAME, a phase in which
Fine hinseu excelled. His other books include
Lesotu ltum nt r]ames (19s8). (sec rrxED
19:13 French Deltnc. winarer
lc4c6 2d4d5 3Nc3Bb4 4dc5 5Bd2Nc7 6NA
Nr5 7dxc5 Bxc5 3Bd3Nh4 9G0Nc6 l0Re1h6 1l
Na4BE 12R.1tsd7 l3Nxn4orn4 1,1c,ldr4 t5Rxc,l
Od3 16Qh5Nc7 17Rd,1g6 l3Ql3Qc? l9Nc3N15 20
21kd7vqd7 22g4Nn4 IQxr+Be7 24Bb4Rae3 25
BxeT Rf,e7 26 (]16 a6 27 Rd1 .rb5 23 Be4+ Bla.k
resisns. II2a . Kc7 29 Qxh3 Rd7 30 Rc1+
TINGERSLIP YARIATTON, 629 in lhe liNG
DTFEN.E, plaled a(idenrally by {LETHTNE aSain{
FLoHR at ihe Notlinsham ro namenr 191b, and
intenlionally by (BEs in the lasl round of the
wodd Chanpionship tournament, 1948, and by
Borrsl{vsp in his match th BioNsrnN, 1950.
'Ihe line snetimes bears the Gernan nane
FIR.ST MOVE, lhe single nove lhal begins the
same, nade by White io dodcrn chess. At one
doe playen drew for @lour and a8ain lor the righi
to nove fitsr. ln the BouDoNNArs-M(ootNE[
matches oi 1834 each Player had the sane olour
rhroughouL, and the n8hl ro make the h6l mn!e
rhanacd onl, aftEr i P,trme had been won. In rhe
Londo. toumancnt 1851 Players nad the sane
colour throughoui my one oatch, each haling the
tusi move in alternate games.
Blackwas supposcdto be lheluckycolou., and
in 1835 G. wrxrRsuggesledrhatWhite (by*ayof
compenqar,on) should havc rhe 6Jr mo!e. I
Ddci'ce rhat ldrerbecame general. In hF!oldmn rn
Brl, rlshcreveFcd rhe tuloutswhen ne(esdry
so thal Wbile alwats moved li6t. now lhe usual
oslon when ganes from eany times are Pub_
FIRZAN, o. nu, lhe piece used in ssAmaNr rhai
was supplatrred by the .E6 (in turn supplanted by
ihe queen). A tzan ismovedo.esqua.ediasonal'
ly in any direction and can be noved lo ody 32
squarcs of the boed. A pam reaching the eighth
ra.k could be pronored only to a 6rzen. A player
who pronoted a pawn on the a-, c-i e-, or g-hle
{ould obtain a firzen that tuuld be noved on a
diffe.ent serol32squares, This.ouldbe inpo.lant
as shown in the sttrdy by as-Snli given under
uNsaBA. Firz,n is derived lron the Pesian
flSCIIER, ROBERT JAMES (1913 ),Interna
tional Grandnaster (1958), *orld chanpioo 1972-
5. Bornin Chicago, hewasbroughl!p in Brooklyn
where his nother noved a year or so alter she sas
divorced in 1945, At the ase ofsix he acquired a