Endgame Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall-- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness
(2011)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[S.l.]: Crown/Archetype, 2011
DESCRIPTION
448 p
ISBN/ISSN
9780307463920 e7xg9
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Frank Brady chronicles the brilliant yet troubled life of iconic chess master Bobby Fischer. An enigmatic genius, Fischer is best remembered for defeating Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky in 1972. However, the victory was overshadowed by the exorbitant demands Fischer made before the match and is subsequent decent into irrelevance. A rematch with Spassky in 1992 put Fischer back in the spotlight, but also got him into trouble with the American government
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