Title:
Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall : from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness / Frank Brady.
Author:
Brady, Frank, 1934-
Publication Information:
New York : Broadway Paperbacks, c2012.
Call Number:
GV1439.F5 B68 2012
Abstract:
A biography that captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master, Bobby Fischer.
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ISBN:
9780307463913
Physical Description:
xi, 411 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
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.
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