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Author Brady, Frank, 1934-
Title Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness / Frank Brady.
Publication Info. New York : Crown, c2011.
Open Library Cover
Location Call No. Status
 Stack 7  92 F5285 B    IN LIBRARY
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 402 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-384) and index.
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.
Subject Fischer, Bobby, 1943-2008.
Chess players -- United States -- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- United States -- Biography.
Added Title Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness
ISBN 9780307463906 (hardcover) :
0307463907 (hardcover) :