Endgame
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
New York : Crown, [2011]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (xi, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
From an author who wrote one of the bestselling Bobby Fischer books ever and who was himself a friend of Fischer's comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master.
Contents:
Loneliness to passion -- Childhood obsession -- Out of the heasd of Zeus -- The American wunderkind -- The Cold War gladiator -- The new Fischer -- Einstein's theory -- Legends clash -- The candidate -- The champion -- The wilderness years -- Fischer-Spassky redux -- Crossing borders -- Arrest and rescue -- Living and dying in Iceland.
Subjects:
Fischer, Bobby, 1943-2008.
Chess players -- United States -- Biography.
Chess -- Collections of games.
Fischer, Bobby, 1943-2008.
Chess players -- United States -- Biography.
Chess -- Collections of games.
ISBN:
9780307463920
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-384) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-384) and index.
Description based on print version record.