Bobby Fischer The Career and Complete Games of ...
The Ultimate Fischer Collection!
The years after the Second World War saw international chess dominated by the Soviets - Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian and then Spassky held the world crown, treating it as if it were almost an integral part of their country's heritage. There were occasional flashes of brilliance in the West - Reshevsky, Najdorf, and later Larsen - but no one really mounted a serious challenge to the Soviet hegemony.
Then, in the mid-1950s, a lone genius from Brooklyn emerged. Obsessed with chess, all his waking hours were devoted to finding truth on the 64 squares. It was an unrelenting, sometimes frustrating quest, but he persevered, eventually emerging as perhaps the greatest natural chess talent ever.
Now, for the first time, every one of his tournament and match games is presented with insightful explanations and analysis. Best-selling chess author, German International Grandmaster Karsten Müller, annotates each game of the player many believe to be the greatest of all time.
These wonderfully annotated games are supplemented by crosstables of every major tournament and match in which Fischer participated, dozens of archival photographs, along with brief comments and observations putting the play of the great champion into historical perspective.
Content: 003 Bibliography
006 Foreword by Larry Evans
015 Introduction by Karsten Müller
024 Opening Survey by Andy Soltis
035 1955 - Games 1-7
039 1956 - Games 8-52
061 1957 - Games 53-123
092 1958 - Games 124-157
110 1959 - Games 158-237
155 1960 - Games 238-305
186 1961 - Games 306-335
200 1962 - Games 336-414
237 1963 - Games 415-440
252 1965 - Games 441-472
268 1966 - Games 473-518
290 1967 - Games 519-562
309 1968 - Games 563-589
321 1970 - Games 590-664
356 1971 - Games 665-685
370 1972 - Games 686-705
382 1992 - Games 706-735
398 Career Results
401 Career Highlights
402 ECO Openings Index
405 Player Index
408 Acknowledgments |