This is the only book ever written entirely by Bobby Fischer. It is not to be confused with other books with similar names that were written by other authors. Here is the blurb on the original dust jacket, as published in 1959: THERE ARE 34 games in this book. The 13 from the U.S. Championship Tournament of 1957-58 and the prize-winning "Game of the Century" from the Third Rosenwald Trophy Tournament are penetratingly analyzed by Bobby Fischer, whose annotations provide invaluable instructions to the chess player of either ...
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This is the only book ever written entirely by Bobby Fischer. It is not to be confused with other books with similar names that were written by other authors. Here is the blurb on the original dust jacket, as published in 1959: THERE ARE 34 games in this book. The 13 from the U.S. Championship Tournament of 1957-58 and the prize-winning "Game of the Century" from the Third Rosenwald Trophy Tournament are penetratingly analyzed by Bobby Fischer, whose annotations provide invaluable instructions to the chess player of either average or advanced ability. In addition, this book includes the scores of Bobby Fischer's 20 games from the 1958 Portoroz Interzonal Tournament in which he played against the world's elite in chess, among them Tal, Gligorich, Petrosyan, and Bronstein. The games in this book reveal Bobby Fischer's brilliance in middle and end-game strategy, and also the latest and soundest treatments of popular openings-in particular, the Sicilian and King's Indian defenses. By playing these games over, the reader will become familiar with the patterns of the latest and soundest lines in chess, and will automatically begin to make stronger moves in his own games. At the age of fifteen, Bobby Fischer was the youngest international grandmaster of all time. He lives in Brooklyn, was a junior at Erasmus Hall High School, and looking forward to the 1959 Candidates' Tournament, the winner of which challenges Mikhail Botvinnik for the world championship. About the Author At the age of fifteen, Bobby Fischer was the youngest international grandmaster of chess of all time. He lived in Brooklyn, was a junior at Erasmus Hall High School, and was looking forward to the 1959 Candidates' Tournament, the winner of which challenged Mikhail Botvinnik for the world championship.
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1959, Simon and Schuster: NY
Hardcover
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Publisher:
Simon and Schuster: NY
Published:
1959
Language:
English
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8 x 5.5", grey cloth, 97pp, covers rubbed, extremities worn, hinges a little loose, pp toned else a nice, clean copy in a rubbed, soiled and edge-torn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. SCARCE.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book First printing of first edition. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Grey cloth with light wear at corners. Mild toning to blank endpages. Unmarked. Jacket has a strip of fading at the spine edge of front panel and a few short edge-tears (longest being one-half-inch). DJ spine with a couple of scuffs, plus a little wear at ends. Rear panel has a small, irregular-shaped piece missing at top edge (approx. three-quarter by one-quarter-inch). 97 pages.
