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

Brady, Frank 1934- (Author).

Summary: From an author who wrote one of the bestselling Bobby Fischer books ever and who was himself a friend of Fischer's comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307463920 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307463923 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 402 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill., ports.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Crown, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-384) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Loneliness to passion -- Childhood obsession -- Out of the heasd 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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.