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Author:

Brady, Frank, 1934-

Title:

Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall -- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness / Frank Brady.

Publisher:

Broadway Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xi, 411 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Fischer, Bobby,--1943-2008.
Chess players--United States--Biography.
Chess--Collections of games.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-390) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0307463915 (pbk.)
9780307463913 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)719428390

Locations:

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)