Topping the bill with Botvinnik and philosopher George Santayana Reinfeld’s qualities as a chess writer Were the reviewers always as complimentary as Dunne’s selection implies? Nor is it clear why Dunne focused on some books, however rudimentarily, and not others. They are always taken at face value and never scrutinised for a hidden undercurrent or insight into how the reviewer’s relationship with Reinfeld might have influenced them. Practical Endgame Play (1939), but never discusses them in the round. Dunne includes reviews of Reinfeld’s many books on chess, e.g. The biography focuses on chess and has little to say about FR’s life beyond tournament performances and his publications. Wood’s magazine Chess founded the following year. It broke with the fusty style that typified chess journalism at the time, like B.H. With his college contemporary Israel Horowitz and others he had founded the lively chess magazine The Chess Review in 1934. By then he had already gained a reputation as a versatile writer. In 1942 he realised that he could not make a living as a player and gave up serious competitive chess. Success over the board became less important for him as he found his way as a writer, editor and chess teacher. FR usually came third/fourth at best, marking him out as a strong player but lacking the necessary ‘killer instinct’ and consistency to rise from the pack. There are tournament tables of events, nearly all on the East Coast, such as the Marshall Club Championship and qualifying events for the US Championship. The games start with a trickle from his school and college years and then proliferate as the standard of opposition rises. In contrast has only 123, so kudos to the biographer for bringing together what is undoubtedly the largest ever collection of FR’s games.
The book contains 278 of FR’s games: 54 have notes, 17 are graced by FR’s original comments, and three games are annotated by others including Reuben Fine. What is in the book?Īlex Dunne is an American FIDE master and author of several books a ten-minute interview from 2008 covers his chess development and outlook. Such an idiosyncratic personality as Reinfeld deserves a more rounded and better researched treatment: for instance, a search of Edward Winter’s Chess Notes website returns over 200 hits for “Fred Reinfeld” one wonders how many Mr Dunne examined. ĭunne has created a helpful introduction to the life of a path-breaking figure in chess publishing, for which he deserves our thanks, but the book is a missed opportunity. He taught private students and extra-mural courses at two excellent universities in the 1930s and 1950s.
His other roles in the world of Caïssa extended to managing the US team and serving as a consultant to the World Book Encyclopedia and the Random House College Dictionary. Less well-known is that for a while (c.1936-41) Reinfeld was one of the top players in the United States and claimed some notable scalps. This biography of Fred Reinfeld (1910-1964) covers the chess life of an outstanding producer (writing, editing, ghosting and translating) of over 100 books on chess, and more than 40 on other topics, including 15 on numismatics (some classics). Jefferson: McFarland, 2018 Tim-Jake Gluckman Amazon or Youtube recommendations).The Man Who Taught America Chess, with 282 Gamesġ94 pages | Softback | Bibliography, Indexes | $45.00 No tracking, you will not be followed with ads/recommendations (i.e. The ads are blocked on your favorite news websites. AD BLOCKING - Reading without ads is much more fun. All financial operations are safer to do in an incognito mode which you do not need to think of - it is turned on by default.
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