John Donaldson : BOBBY FISCHER
AND HIS WORLD
Including 99 Annotated
Games 645 Seiten, kartoniert, Siles
Press, 1. Auflage 2020
Gewicht :1,16 kg
Hersteller: Siles Press
Breite :17,7 cm
Höhe: 25,2 cm
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Autor : John Donaldson
Sprache: Englisch
Auflage: 1
ISBN-13 9781890085193
Seiten : 645
Einband: kartoniert
INHALT:
xv Acknowledgments
xvii Introduction
xx A Note to the Reader
001 Part One - Beginner to
U.S. Junior Champion
101 Part Two - Breakthrough!
145 Part Three - Grandmaster
and Candidate
213 Part Four - The Early
Sixties
331 Part Five - The Late
Sixties
421 Part Six -The World
Championship Cycle
473 Part Seven - The Dark
Years
531 Part Eight - Comeback
595 Part Nine - Adrift
631 Epilogue
633 Index of Names
IM Donaldson examines
Fischer’s life and career from his days as a child prodigy through the height
of his World Championship triumph and into his tumultuous final years.
Donaldson’s meticulous research has uncovered previously lost games and a
wealth of unknown material about Fischerranging from his close friendships with
players and supporters to his acrimonious relationships with organizers,
journalists, lawyers, and publishers.
Bobby Fischer and His World is
brought to life through a potpourri of first-hand accounts, interviews,
letters, and articles by and about the colorful characters that inhabited
Fischer’s world. Unifying this wide-ranging tale are over 100 photos and
illustrations and 99 newly annotated games.
This is the story of Fischer
the man and the player, shedding new light on the riddle of the most famous chessplayer
in history.
International Master John
Donaldson is a player, a chess journalist and historian, and a thirteen-time
United States World Chess Olympiad coach (his 2016 team won gold).
”The best and most
comprehensive work that I have seen about the chess legend Bobby Fischer. While
I read numerous other books about the American chess genius, as well as I knew
him personally, reading this book I still learned new things about his life.
This work is a perfect balance between historical research, rare photos,
instructive chess games and much more, in an easy to read style.“ --
Grandmaster Susan Polgar
”Historian and researcher par
excellence, John Donaldson, brings us the final word on the enigmatic American
genius …“ -- Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan
”An elaborate and exhaustive
portrait of Bobby Fischer, unique in chess literature. John Donaldson, a
brilliant researcher, painstakingly traces Fischer’s steps and includes
stories, games and interviews previously unpublished. A must read! A
masterpiece.“ -- Grandmaster Lubos Kavalek
”I recognize style. But you
see, when I played a game with Bobby, there was no style. Bobby played
perfectly. And perfection has no style.“ -- Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf
”John Donaldson is a triple
threat in chessat least. There are lots of books on ”enigmatic“ Fischer’s
famous games, with little else, other than his birth data. Genius was born and
hardly grew up before smashing upon the world and challenging an empire, then
developing paranoia. But how and why? Donaldson gives us fresh info and insight
into a life that took place in a context of relationships worth exploring. Like
his fellow top historians from Russia, the Linders, he shines a light on his
subject’s associates too. And several of the games you may see for the first
time. An indispensable addition to Fischeriana.“ -- International Master
Anthony Saidy
”In the early 1970’s, Fischer
reached the apex of his power, crushing aside all rivals to become America’s
first world champion. The media and even the non-chess-playing public took to
him the way fans at the Apollo Theater loved James Brown. In this book,
acclaimed author IM John Donaldson breaks completely new ground, focusing on
the mercurial relationships between Fischer and his contemporaries, as well as
a fresh look at Fischer’s immense contributions to our game. Filled with
numerous photos and previously undisclosed biographical information, it also
covers his games in great depth. This may be the most important book on Bobby’s
life, ever written.“ -- International Master Cyrus Lakdawala
John Donaldson : BOBBY FISCHER AND HIS WORLD
- Marke: Siles Press
- Artikelnr.: 5354
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28.90 CHF