Synopses & Reviews
Long out-of-print and known only to collectors and connoiseurs, this legendary work by Reuben Fine returns in a completely revised and corrected edition in modern algebraic notation. After explaining the basic elements of combinations and attacks against the King, Fine discusses how to evaluate a position; how to handle superior, equal, and inferior positions; the significance of pawn structure and space; the transition from opening to middlegame and middlegame to endgame; and much more. With hundreds of diagrams and examples from actual play, The Middlegame in Chess is one of the modern classics of the game.
About the Author
INTERNATIONAL GRANDMASTER REUBEN FINE (1914-1993) was one of the world's greatest players from the 1930s to the 1950s. World War II prevented him from participating in world championship events in Europe, and in 1951 he retired from active play and devoted himself to writing great chess books and to the practice of psychotherapy. BURT HOCHBERG is a former editor in chief of Chess Life magazine. He has written and edited a variety of chess books.