JustinHorton wrote:
Is "strong" Fine and "fighting" Steinitz?
I thought the concept that the "the King is a strong piece" can be originally attributed to Steinitz. Fine may have said so as well, but if you can trace references to the concept that pre-date Fine, that more or less proves it.
A website about Steinitz believes so, even it also describes the King as fighting.
http://www.wilhelmsteinitz.com/Fighting_King.html
It's true in the ending, less so in the middle-game and untrue in the opening. There are certainly games at amateur level at least where following a Steinitz doctrine in late middle-games leads to disaster. I played a few myself, until I realised that running your king into trouble was just bad.