Bibliograph

Endgame, Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness, Frank Brady

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Endgame, Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness, Frank Brady

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-384) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Endgame

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

701518971

Responsibility statement

Frank Brady

Sub title

Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness

Summary

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

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

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Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness

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