Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part IV: Fischer
London: Everyman Chess / Gloucester Publishers, 2005.
Hardcover.
The fourth in Kasparov’s series on the definitive history of the World Chess Championship and its participants. In this volume, he focuses on Bobby Fischer (1972-1975) and the other outstanding Western stars of Fischer’s era – Samuel Reshevsky, Miguel Najdorf and Brent Larsen.
Bobby Fischer was the first and thus far only American to have become world chess champion. In the years between 1955 and 1972 Fischer took on the Soviet Chess heavyweights, and beat them. During this time Fischer scored huge successes, including a score of 11/11 in the 1963/64 US Championship and, in his run up to the World Championship in 1972, match victories of 6-0 against two of the strongest players in the world, Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen. The climax of Fischer's campaign to become world champion was his match win against Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972 . In this book, Kasparov analyses Fischer's greatest games and assesses his legacy.
Item #901485ISBN: 1857443950
6-7/8 x 10", red cloth, 496pp, bibliography, index of players, index of openings.
Clean, square, bright, very fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $50.00