The Psychology of the Chess Player

It's an interesting book all should read.  Written by Reuben Fine which was also a Psychologist. 

His conclusions are tough: most of the chess players are in fact disguised homossexuals.  Being such is not a problem but disguising it is a real trouble.

By the daily matching here I think Fine was right about the weaknesses he found:  most of players here comes to prove some 'superiority' and when faced with their failures they leave the board, disconnect, cheat, or ask to someone play for them. 

Poor creatures. Their weakness in face defeat will be their biggest companion in life leading to many problems and a complete failure after waste their lives. 

He believed in conversion therapy. Evidently, chess players can be converted into checkers players.

Thx for the contribution. 

If the problem is Fine's opinion that homossexuality is mutable:  

1 - It's not expressed in the book quoted.  

2 -  I would agree with that: it's a behavior not something innate . WHY ? 

a)  The innate assumption or the complete lack of option is a political fruit transferred to 'Science' : we live in times deeply fascistic: the old right-wing Fascism now has a strong competitor in the Left Fascism: no questioning, no options, the human being is a slave of his/her programmed genetics.  The entire proposition, the genetical grounds are being formulated through fascist questions, bias, world-vision  (the old German Weltanschauung) . It's absurd the level of deepness all those things were led to. The most important item: you cannot disagree or you are the Fascist.  But since they have Media, Corporations, Academic World parcels on their side we know what side is Fascist because the violent rebuke and ridiculing of the dissent are integral parts of Fascism .

Beyond that, we have strong elements to indicate - like Kinsey already reported in 1948 and in 1953 -  that nobody is purely hetero or homossexual and sexuality is prone to change.  Nothing defines you and sex orientation was made another battlefield to divide people.  

That does not mean everybody will experiment homossexual relations through their lives. After all, there are people which do not even experiment sex. 

But hey, The book is about much more than sex.