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Ishi Press Bobby Fischer by Bobby Fischer Introduction by Sam Sloan
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 195758 and the prizewinning 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 Fischers 20 games from the 1958 Portoroz Interzonal Tournament in which he played against the worlds elite in chess among them Tal Gligorich Petrosyan and Bronstein. The games in this book reveal Bobby Fischers brilliance in middle and endgame strategy and also the latest and soundest treatments of popular openingsin particular the Sicilian and Kings 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 was the youngest international grandmaster of all time. He lives in Brooklyn was a junior at Erasmus Hall High School and looking forward to the 1959 Candidates Tournament the winner of which challenges Mikhail Botvinnik for the world championship. About the Author At the age of fifteen Bobby Fischer was the youngest international grandmaster of chess of all time. He lived in Brooklyn was a junior at Erasmus Hall High School and was looking forward to the 1959 Candidates Tournament the winner of which challenged Mikhail Botvinnik for the world championship.show more