Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness - Hardcover

Brady, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307463907 ISBN 13: 9780307463906

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2011

Synopsis

Endgame When Bobby Fischer died in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life: he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him. Full description

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Review

Fascinating. (The Times)

A rapt, intimate book... Fascinating. (New York Times)

Frank Brady's superlative Endgame is a biography more than worthy of its charismatic subject ...the second half of his life is one of the saddest stories, even as this is one the year's best biographies. (Washington Post)

A superb storyteller. (Literary Review)

(An) engaging account. (Sunday Telegraph)

Well-researched and enjoyable. (Jewish Chronicle)

The Mozart of the chessboard is inseparable from the monster of paranoid egotism in this fascinating biography. Brady, founding publisher of Chess Life magazine and a friend of Fischer, gives a richly detailed account of the impoverished Brooklyn wunderkind's sensational opening--he was history's first 15-year-old grandmaster--and the 1972 match with Boris Spassky, in which Fischer captivated the world with his brilliant play and towering tantrums. Brady's chronicle of Fischer's graceless endgame is just as engrossing, as the chess superstar sinks into poverty after rejecting million-dollar matches; flirts with cults; and becomes, though himself Jewish, a raving anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist.... Brady gives us a vivid, tragic narrative of a life that became a chess game. (Publishing News (Starred review))

Rich in detail and insight...I consider this book essential reading in the effort to understand
Bobby Fischer and his place in our world.

(David Shenk, author of The Genius in All of Us.)

The definitive portrait of the greatest- and most disturbed-chess genius of all time. (Paul Hoffman, author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers)

Tells the full and fair story of Fischer's astonishing rise and heartbreaking fall...Brady is the perfect biographer for Bobby Fischer. (Christopher Chabris, author of The Invisible Gorilla)

Book Description

The fascinating biography that for the first time captures the complete, remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer's life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0307463907
• ISBN 13: 9780307463906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304