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Bobby Fischer

From Chess Genius to Legend

192 Seiten, kartoniert, Thinkers' Press, 1. Auflage 2002

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World Chess Champion (1972) Bobby Fischer still perplexes us, what ifs us, still drives us crazy. A man of contradictions, naïveté, complexity, simpleness, and profundity, we want to know how such a being survives in travails ranging from the U.S., to Iceland, to Jugoslavia, to Hungary, to Japan, to...
Today, as in his past, his few "close" friends are subservient, his abandonment of traditional chess play complete, and his refusal to be enclosed in any type of box has created a virtual prison for him. The new generation doesn't know much about him but he is still a phenomenon among the boomers.
Former Soviet Grandmaster Eduard Gufeld
went back several decades to show the better times, the better Bobby; the kid from Brooklyn who took on the entire Soviet elite at their last bastion of supremacy, chess.
Fischer once said that in a chess match he was afraid of nobody. Yet, after he won the world title he dropped nearly out of sight. When he reappeared in 1992 to fight his old nemesis, Boris Spassky, he still showed his spunk, his sporting acumen, and some rust.
Other co-authors analyze Fischer's high-powered strength in strategy and tactics, as well as the ultimate in gamesmanship - no compromise. Chess myths are demolished. You will find out what it is like to play the kingpin of chess.
The "Troubled Genius" is essayed in new articles, new photos, and a perspective which has seldom been described as the reader discovers why Bobby Fischer still fascinates us, through thick and thin.


It's long been Grandmaster Gufeld's contention, and also the contention of others including Garry Kasparov, that inspite of the 1992 match with ex-world champion Boris Spassky, Robert James Fischer should have kept his fame as a "legend" intact and not risked it by playing some good chess and some not-so-good chess in a match that did not befit his former status.
I must confess, at first I didn't agree, now I do. Fischer was out of shape, and he could have maintained Professor Emeritus credentials, but none of that interests Fischer. What we have tried to do in this book is to show you the life of Fischer from which legends are made. You will also get, hopefully, a better understanding of the Fischer of now, his extremism, and the views of many others on a wide variety of "Fischer" topics.
If one has seen or heard various broadcasts by Fischer, they will elicit a number of emotions. Some view his character sympathetically and with sadness, others with disdain, reproof, and a feeling of revulsion. We reiterate, this book is not about the current Fischer. This book targets the Bobby Fischer most of us grew up with, complete with a broad paintbrush of variety including games, quotes, views, photos, and articles.
Fischer has always made fascinating copy. Yet, as an editor, it was often with feelings of frustration and dismay that we put together what we knew with what we were trying to find out.
Many of us wanted Fischer to be a hero in a time when the quality of heroes was descending into the pits. Fischer, in these pages, said he has no heroes. Some took up for him no matter how his behavior was reported. Others, infuriated by his lies and contradictions, ostracized or wrote him out of their chess life forever. Forgiveness can be a difficult thing.
With heartfelt hope and prayer, we hope that someday Fischer will return to the world where most of us live, and leave his fears behind. Then maybe he can embark on a new life of trust and fairness.

Bob Long, Publisher´s Foreword
Weitere Informationen
EAN 093865084X
Gewicht 300 g
Hersteller Thinkers' Press
Breite 15,4 cm
Höhe 22,2 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
Autor Eduard GufeldCarlos Almarza-MatoBob LongWolfgang Unzicker
Sprache Englisch
Auflage 1
ISBN-10 093865084X
Seiten 192
Einband kartoniert
004 Photos and Illustrations
005 Publisher's Foreword
007 Bobby Fischer: From Chess Genius to Legend
107 Bobby Fischer, An Attempt at Analysis
143 Bobby Fischer, The Troubled Genius
157 My Game with Fischer 1964
161 Meeting Bobby Fischer
163 Bobby Fischer in Europe and in Print
177 My Memories
181 Bibliography
182 Picture Section
188 Index
191 Colophon