Author: Brady, Frank, 1934-
Title: Endgame: Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness
Published: New York: Crown, 2011
Description: xi, 402 p., [8] p. of plates :ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number: GV1439 F5 B68 2011
Bibliography: p. 379-384
Content(s):
- 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
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
Subject(s):
- Fischer, Bobby, 1943-2008
- Chess players -- United States -- Biography
- Chess -- Collections of games
Review(s):
- Lewis, Leslie. "Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall--from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness." Library Journal 136, no. 3 (February 15, 2011): 117
- DYLAN LOEB, McCLAIN. "Solving Bobby Fischer." New York Times Book Review (February 13, 2011): 24
- Pitt, David. "Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall-from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness." Booklist 107, no. 9/10 (January 2011): 34
Read: March 6, 2011
