Endgame : : Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
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Loneliness to passion -- Childhood obsession -- Out of the head 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.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Crown, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xi, 402 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307463906
0307463907
SUBJECTS
Fischer, Bobby, -- 1943-2008.
Chess players -- Biography.
Chess -- Collections of games.