Title:
Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall -- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness / Frank Brady.
ISBN:
9780307463906
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown Publishers, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
xi, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Loneliness to passion -- Childhood obsession -- Out of the head 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:
A biography that captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master, Bobby Fischer.
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OCLC Number:
ocn535489961
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
