Bobby Fischer

What's currently being written about chess master Bobby Fischer around the web...

Stay Up to Date via Email

Enter your email address here to subscribe to your daily chess master Bobby Fischer update:

Daily news and offers, breaking news and more, from The David Lawrence Show.

Best Sellers at Amazon.com...

Bobby Fischer's Chess Games
By: Bobby Fischer
List Price:
Amazon Price: Click for Availability

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
By: Bobby Fischer
List Price: $7.99
Amazon Price: $3.92

CUSTOMER REVIEW:
Replacement copy of my first chess book
I bought this to replace my badly work first edition. Didn't really need it, but bought it anyway.

I liked the step by step presentation. Others have been critical, but I found it useful when first learning.

Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess
By: Bobby Fischer
List Price: $25.95
Amazon Price: $20.65

Product Description
This is the only book ever written entirely by Bobby Fischer. It is not to be confused with other books with similar names that were written by other authors. Here is the blurb on the original dust jacket, as published in 1959: THERE ARE 34 games in this book. The 13 from the U.S. Championship Tournament of 1957-58 and the prize-winning "Game of the Century" from the Third Rosenwald Trophy Tournament are penetratingly analyzed by Bobby Fischer, whose annotations provide invaluable instructions to the chess player of either average or advanced ability. In addition, this book includes the scores of Bobby Fischer's 20 games from the 1958 Portoroz Interzonal Tournament in which he played against the world's elite in chess, among them Tal, Gligorich, Petrosyan, and Bronstein. The games in this book reveal Bobby Fischer's brilliance in middle and end-game strategy, and also the latest and soundest treatments of popular openings-in particular, the Sicilian and King's Indian defenses. By playing these games over, the reader will become familiar with the patterns of the latest and soundest lines in chess, and will automatically begin to make stronger moves in his own games. At the age of fifteen, Bobby Fischer is the youngest international grandmaster of all time. He lives in Brooklyn, is a junior at Erasmus Hall High School, and is looking forward to the 1959 Candidates' Tournament, the winner of which challenges Mikhail Botvinnik for the world championship.

The Chess of Bobby Fischer (Great Literature Series)
By: Robert E. Burger
List Price: $24.95
Amazon Price: $65.32

CUSTOMER REVIEW:
This is a neat book.
The author collected about a hundred (I didn't really count them) of Fischer's games, together with some chess problems and some GM and master games to draw the parallel between Fischer's play and chess great players'. The author grouped the games in endgames, middle-games and openings. Fischer had many outstanding endgames, but also there were a few games he was lucky to draw it because his opponents missed the wins. There too were some games Fischer couldn't win because of lack of experience (the next time around he would win convincingly after reviewing the theory). The part of middle-games showed how much better and stronger-will he was compared to his opponents. About the openings we all know Fischer had a narrow repertoire, however his is deeper than anyone before and after his time. There had been some systems he was not lucky with, but he stuck to them throughout to prove his points. Then by his most important match, the championship match with Spassky, he sprung out the Queen Pawn opening, the Alekhine and some he seldom employed. And he won! There were not many drawn or lost games of Fischer's in this book, but they are instructive. (And it's good for us to know.)
The games in the book were not deeply analyzed but there are many of them. With a computer programs it is easy to improve the analyses. As the title said, "The chess of Bobby Fischer." It's all about the chess skills or the psychology that Fischer experienced during the games. For more of the personal aspect, the book by Gufeld is a good complement to this book.

Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves (Fireside Chess Library)
By: Pandolfini
List Price: $11.95
Amazon Price: $4.95

CUSTOMER REVIEW:
Good puzzle book, but not especially useful
"Let's learn to think like Bobby Fischer."

The above is the premise of this book by chess legend Bruce Pandolfini (Josh Waitzkin's teacher): you solve puzzles created from positions in the late, great Bobby Fischer's games. Each position is graded in terms of difficulty. 1 = easy; 2 = fairly easy, and so on, up to 5, which is the hardest.

To solve each position, you must look at everything that's going on across the board. The correct move will most likely allow you to checkmate the enemy king, gain material, or achieve some significant positional gain. All in all, a fun book, and good for players who like a good puzzle.

However, the "organization" of this book (if I can be kind enough to call it that) is poorly done. Easy, difficult, and positions of intermediate difficulty are strewn around the book, mixed with one another. As far as the eye can see, neither Pandolfini nor his editors made any effort whatsoever to organize this book. To look on the bright side, the arrangement isn't a serious flaw - unless you're actually looking for a particular position, in which case you're going to do some serious bookmarking here.

However, this book's primary flaw is that despite presenting some interesting tactical positions from arguably the greatest chess player of all time, this book isn't a cohesive, comprehensive way to improve your chess; it's more of a fun puzzle book. If you want a good, instructional book about chess that addresses everything from the opening to the endgame, try "How to Reassess Your Chess" (great book) by Jeremy Silman.

• History Chess by Boym Partners
Via The Apartment Broadcast , Constantin and Laurene Boym's new History Chess is a set of oversized chess pieces that "alludes to a particular icon of the century's history, from the sinking Titanic to the scarred towers of the World Trade Center." Above, a video reenactment of the 1956 "game of the century" between Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne using History Chess pieces. • Do celebrities really die in threes?
With the recent deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson happening within in three days of each it made this guy think of the old wives tale that celebrities die in 3?s. He researched the dates and found it happens more often than he thought. The results are from the years 2000 ? 2009, choosing only famous people that died within three days of each other. Here are the results of the last few years: 2009 • FEMA videographer goes public in interview with intriguing 9/11 revelations a...
Kurt Sonnenfeld : Exclusive interview 9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public 6.22.09 / Voltairenet.org As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: ?What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ? is very disturbing!? He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, • FEMA videographer goes public in interview with intriguing revelations
Kurt Sonnenfeld : Exclusive interview 9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public 6.22.09 / Voltairenet.org As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: ?What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ? is very disturbing!? He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, • 9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public
Kurt Sonnenfeld and unidentified search and rescue specialist in subterranean void beneath Ground Zero. VOLTAIRE As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, where he w

Related items from eBay...

Previously: Bobby Short >>
Next: Kirstie Alley >>

Was this helpful? Buy David a Starbucks® Mocha via PayPal!

David loves his Starbucks® mocha. Skim, no whip, please. To easily and painlessly send David a selection from Starbucks® and paying via PayPal, just click on the button below your choice: