Endgame Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness
From the 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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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.
