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Bobby Fischer: Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion

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Bobby Fischer is beyond a doubt one of the greatest players in the history of the game. This book contains over 1000 of his games. There are no annotation or comments so around 4-6 games
are put into every page. Each game has 1 diagram, taken from some
stage in the game. I have found that the very best, and most effective way to get good in chess is to study games of the great players. I have studied Morphy, Casablanca and Fischer.
I suggest you play through every single one of these games, and try and understand what Bobby is doing. With every move try to make something of it, and try to predict what Bobby will do next. I have said there are no comments, but there are ! !! ? and
?? to indicate crucial moves. Good or bad. Take a special look at these moves before you play on and try to discover why it is so bad, or so good. The book is laid out like this, starting with 1955 and then going year by year ( 56,57,58 etz ). All the games of the 92 match with Spassky are also here. There is obviously where it ends. However, after that there is " last minute additions ". Mostly games from simuls that recently surfaced. In short, all of Bobby`s important tournament games are in here, including blitz. The games from the " unofficial blitz WC " in the early 70s are here, the manhatten chess club blitz tournament ( In which bobby scored 21,5/22) also in the early 70s before his title match. Many simul games are included here also. Also, the 3 little known games Bobby played against a computer program in 1977( 3-0 ). If you want to get good, don`t buy book after book on strategy,openings,tactics etz. Buy this book, the book on Morphy`s games and the one on Casablanca. But how do i then learn the openings??- easy. In going throught this book, and trying to understand every move, you will become very familiar with the Ruy Lopez, King`s Indian defence, Sicilian and some other openings. If you wanna invest time and energy, and as little cash as possible, into getting good in chess then get this book. If it doesn`t work out, you can always sell it used and cut your losses. What more can i say, cmon people. For 20 dollars and a lot of hard work you will be getting alot back.
I hope this has helped you decide.

This book includes all of Bobby Fischer's games from 1955, to the 1992 rematch with GM Boris Spassky. Not annotated, but well worth it. Has opening index, ending index, and eco code index. Highly recommended.

Comprehensive:

I am a big fan of Fischer, the chess player, and it is a shame that his personal beliefs are something that his fans have to come to terms with. That beings said, this book has arguably every published game that Fischer played.

Not insightful:

The author's annotations are very brief and do not explain anything beyond the obvious. Some of the games have a cryptic "!" or "?" symbol with out any explanation of WHY the move deserves attention. So if the person is below intermediate strength, this book might be more frustrating than useful.

Not user friendly:

Be ready to squint your eyes. The physical presentation of this book is very inconvenient at best. The author did everything he could to compress this book into the smallest layout possible at the cost of creating eye strain, he even removed the "x" capture symbol to save space. Every game has a diagram that is literally about the size of a US quarter [see image]. Also, all the moves are typed in BOLD and the annotations are printed in plain text. It would have been much easier to read if the moves in plain text and the annotations in bold. Forty move games are crushed into a 4 by 1 rectangle which makes it difficult to read the moves off a table without losing your place.

Over all, this is a good book but could be better if it was user friendly.

I think for such a great player ( or greatest ) as Fischer, his complete collection of games should be published. Unfortunately for the time being , no one had done this job. Fischer's " my 60 memorable games" covers only games up to 1967. Wade's book only a collection and with a few games annotated and also has been out of print. Soltis book only covers 100 games, so for the time being this is only choice. I hope in the future someone can do the job produce and annatate all the games of Bobby Fischer!!! But for the time being what we can do is to buy this book, and play through and help with a computer to appreciate Fischer's games!!!

This book contains every verified Fischer Game in chronological order, with some annotation and diagrams of crucial positions.It is an Inexhaustible referance guide with thorough indexing.It changed the way i study chess.

Bobby fishcer may not be a good human being, But if theyre is anything he does know is chess. Even though theyre are no notes with the games, the amount of games really does make up for it!!
you can learn alot just by going through the games. So if youre a fan of chess you really owe it to youreself to get this book...I still have a long way to go though!!!!
so get youre notebook ready and prepare to do some serious studying.

An excellent source for the complete games of the best. My only complaint is the binding. After a couple of times playing through games pages just
started to separate from the binding. Every time I open the book more of the pages fall out Excellent content....cheaply made.

Ok,
In your chess life ,you should have a book with games collections from at least a grandmaster.
Bobby Fischer is not just a GM but a world champion too.

The book contents more than 1000 unannotated games.That means full games with no comments.There will be so re-view of moves here and there.

Now,
How to use the book?

You can play the games and identify the plan that Bobby used.
There are openings index,endgames index,name of players,so on makes the book a good one.

From what Jeremy Silman wrote in his book I recommend that you can play the first 4-6 moves and than try to figure out the moves made by Bobby.

Well,nowadays,with the advance technology,you can find annotated games in the net and view it in your computer.A good web-page is G.Ossimitz Chess Page...

So,you can buy the book and feel no regret.

Get this book, and improve your Chess but in the vision of Bobby Fischer; Old Chess is dead. This individual has created Fischer Random, a new way of playing Chess. I think Chess fans should write to amazon.com and request that this game be sold on here (referring to Fischer Random). I am not joking here but Fischer Random's format is really different but very interesting. Peter Leko from Europe is the first person to win in Fischer Random Chess.
I recommend this book to you.