According to Google AI, a tournament took place in Orebro, Sweden that year, the Nordic Chess Championship, which was won by the Swedish master Erik Lundin. Naturally, Fine did not participate, but he did give a simul there in which the following game was played. It’s a short, sharp tactical display won by his opponent.
Tactics are crucial because they are short-term, forcing moves that capture pieces, deliver mate or gain a decisive advantage. Tactical patterns (or motifs) and mating patterns can be learned.
Today there are a lot of books on tactics, but the one I learnrd from was The Art of Checkmate by Renaud & Kahn. You can read C.J.S. Purdy’s review of the book HERE.
Today programs and websites offer a wealth of possibilities for tactical training. The only problem is that in the training positions you know a tactic is lurking in the position. In your own games you don’t and that’s the problem! In casual Internet games I see a lot of players who evidently think they are playing tactical chess when they just willy-nilly sacrifice a piece without a tactical motif being present, Those are not sacrifices...they are blunders.
In the following miniature Fine played in a simul in Orebro in 1937, he played 11.Qb3, voluntarily walking into a pin on his N, he immediately got into serious trouble and his opponent took advantage of it in grand fashion.
[Event "Simultaneous, Orebro"]
[Site "Orebro SWE"]
[Date "1937.01.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Reuben Fine"]
[Black "Pettersson"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D17"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 17.1"]
[PlyCount "36"]
[EventDate "1937.??.??"]
{D17: Slav Defense} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5
Nbd7 {[%mdl 32]} 7. Nxc4 Qc7 8. g3 e5 9. dxe5 Nxe5 10. Bf4 Nfd7 {Here white
has a wide chouice of moves avilable, but the most obvious is 11.Ng2 with
equal chances.} 11. Qb3 {This move is the cause of all white's trouble.} Be6 {
White manages to extricate himself out of the pin, but the cost is too high.}
12. e3 Nf3+ 13. Kd1 {Black has a decisive advantage.} Qd8 {Note that white's B
has no retreat square.} 14. Kc1 (14. Qxb7 {also loses.} Nc5+ 15. Nd6+ Qxd6+ 16.
Bxd6 {and wins.} Nxb7) (14. e4 {runs into} Nc5+) 14... Nc5 15. Qd1 Qxd1+ 16.
Kxd1 {On the surface it looks like white is in no danger, but black's pieces
are poised to swarm white's K.} O-O-O+ 17. Ke2 (17. Kc1 Nb3+) (17. Kc2 {
loses the Q.} g5 {trspd the B.}) 17... Bg4 (17... g5 {is note quite as good,
but after} 18. Kxf3 gxf4 19. Be2 Bg7 20. gxf4 Bxc3 21. bxc3 Bd5+ {with a
dwcisive advantage.}) 18. h3 {This alliws a mate in 3, but there was no way of
saving the game.} (18. Rd1 Nxh2+ 19. Ke1 Rxd1+ 20. Nxd1 Nf3+ 21. Ke2 g5 22. Bg2
Ne5+ 23. f3 Nxc4 24. Bxg5 Rg8 25. Bf4 Be6 {Black is a piece up.}) 18... Rd2+ {
[%mdl 512] White resigned. It's mate in 2. An excellent performance by an
amateur in a simul!} (18... Rd2+ 19. Nxd2 Nd4+ 20. Ke1 Nc2#) 0-1
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