Chess devotees simply can't get enough of Bobby Fischer. Every facet of his personality and his play unfolds in this biographical study. In addition to analyzing his exceptional talent, it captures and puts into perspective his tough youth, anti-social tendencies, fights against the chess authorities, and growing mental illness. There's also extensive information from recently opened FBI files about Fischer, and a discussion of a low point: when Fischer cheered the collapse of the Twin Towers.
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fischer Revealed!,
This review is from: Bobby Fischer: The Wandering King (Paperback)
Bobby Fischer-Chess genius or insane tyrant? Or somewhere in between? This book dives into the subject with a series of interviews with people who have crossed paths with him at one time or another during his stormy life. We are warned that any friend of Fischer who talks too much is completely cut out of his life, so this is not a tell all-learn all book. But it's probably as close as we are going to get.
Why all the interest in this man? Some of his comments about the U.S. and the Jewish people are horrifying.Some people question his sanity. He clearly has some MAJOR bitterness in him! But if you were alive during the early 70's, when ,during the cold war, he single handedly took on the Russians,and became world champion,you'll never forget it. And he inspired millions of kids, like me, to learn chess...probably most from his book:"Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess".He did so much for chess in this country..but he could have done so much more. This book explains why he didn't...or maybe why he couldn't. Excellent!
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Genius at work!,
By Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Bobby Fischer: The Wandering King (Paperback)
For this new generation, the name of Bobby Fisher may mean a mere anecdote, but for all those who lived that decade, Fisher meant the epic of the irreverent chess player, signed by a curious personality, surrounded of mystery.
Since his match with Tigran Petrossian, I became an enthusiatic player; as a matter of fact I acquired a fabulous text with all these games, but that jast was the prelude for the final combat with Boris Spassky. The world was aware that far beyond a simple match, that duel meant the challenge between West and East, where the Soviet hegemony was being seriously carved in relief. In this sense, the aroused interest by every one of those games was in the headlines of the great newspapers by then. Today, I was shocked by his early death (64). With his departure, an epic chapter has been over. If you are a hard fan of the chess game, it's useless to remark the transcendence of his legend, and for all those newcomers on the fabulous game, it would be very recommendable to get close to him, because, the chess game reached a legendary status like the Baseball, Football, Basketball and even the Olympic games. In memory of Bobby Fisher!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Poor Bobby Fischer,
By Cwn_Annwn (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bobby Fischer: The Wandering King (Paperback)
This book was put together by some Dutch guys that made a documentary about Fischer. Its an interview style book where various people give their recollections and thoughts on Fischer. Most of them were people who only had fleeting encounters with Fischer. There is also a lot of the predictable "Fischer was nuts because he said bad things about the Jews" in this, both from the interviewees and the people who put this book together. In spite of that I thought this was a reasonably good book mainly due to Fischer himself being such a fascinating character.
Fischer of course was a little nutty. What can you say about a foaming at the mouth Jew hater whose Mother, and possibly his Father were Jews. However he did have reason to be paranoid and angry. He was watched by both the FBI and the KGB. Éven his Mother had been watched by the FBI for years because of her Russian Jewish background and left wing activism. He was being pursued by the US Government and he did get financially ripped off numerous times, including having all his possessions confiscated from a storage unit where he was late on one payment after years of paying on time. So like I said the guy did have reason to be paranoid and angry. The definitive biography on Fischer has yet to be written. Till then books like this are of interest.
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