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

Brady, Frank, 1934-

2011, Book , xi, 402 pages, [8] pages of plates :

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Summary/Review: A biography that captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master, Bobby Fischer.

Summary/Review: A biography that captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master, Bobby Fischer.

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Publication information:	New York : Crown Publishers, c2011.
ISBN:	0307463907
ISBN:	0307463923 (ebk.)
ISBN:	9780307463906
ISBN:	9780307463920 (ebk.)
Language:	English
Record ID:	2743129
Full edition title:	First edition
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	xi, 402 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Date acquired:	April 8, 2011
More creator details:	Frank Brady.
Contents note:	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.

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