Searching for Bobby Fischer

Chess has always been a particular passion of mine, which, much like other passions, rises and falls as the years go by. Most games and their inherent competitiveness are fun, but chess remains the most elegant. It has the physical beauty of the pieces, the simplest of rules, yet the potential for......more

I went to the library to look for books about chess strategy, because, you know, I like chess. They were all out of Susanna Polgar, so I brought home this book instead. It's basically what it says it is; a chess prodigy's father writes about his son and the international chess scene in the 1980s. An......more

My youngest son has become an avid chess player of late, so while I have no interest in learning the game itself, I figured I might as well learn its history. History is precisely what sparked my son’s recent enthusiasm; his favorite magazine, the Jewish history magazine “Zman,” did an article on th......more

I've loved the movie that came from this book for a long time, so when I ran across the book at the library I had to pick it up. Fred Waitzkin was inspired by Bobby Fisher's 1972 world championship chess win over the Russian Boris Spassky. He studied chess for awhile before realizing that he would ne......more

i read one book on chess so now i'm a self proclaimed expert and no one can convince me otherwise anyways i honestly did like this book for its honest i hope portrayals of the "chess world" which i have no real way of verifying to be true...but anyways i thought the characterizations of real life peo......more