In this book, published by Simon and Schuster in 1969, Bobby Fischer analyzes his most important and representative games. He shows the strategic considerations, the tactics, and sometimes the blunders, that occur during the pressure of tournament play. He assesses his opponents’ thinking as well. Each game has, in addition to Fischer's own annotations, an analytical intro In this book, published by Simon and Schuster in 1969, Bobby Fischer analyzes his most important and representative games. He shows the strategic considerations, the tactics, and sometimes the blunders, that occur during the pressure of tournament play.
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He assesses his opponents’ thinking as well. Each game has, in addition to Fischer's own annotations, an analytical introduction by International Grandmaster Larry Evans. If you're a chess player and you haven't read this book. I'm struggling to complete the sentence.
It's sort of like you claim to be a Christian, but haven't read the Bible. You'd better do something about it! The short-list for 'greatest chess player of all time' only has two names: Fischer and Kasparov. Kasparov had the unquestionable advantage of being sane, so he lasted much longer.
But when Fischer was in the zone, he was so ferociously unstoppable that no real comparison is available. No o If you're a chess player and you haven't read this book. I'm struggling to complete the sentence. Online presentation software free.
It's sort of like you claim to be a Christian, but haven't read the Bible. You'd better do something about it! The short-list for 'greatest chess player of all time' only has two names: Fischer and Kasparov. Kasparov had the unquestionable advantage of being sane, so he lasted much longer. But when Fischer was in the zone, he was so ferociously unstoppable that no real comparison is available.
No one else has ever won a Candidates match (World Championship quarter-final and subsequent) with a clean sweep. Fischer did it twice.
My 60 Memorable Games is his only book. He wasn't really a writer, and apparently he had to get help from Larry Evans to do the parts that weren't just game annotations. It matters about as much as the fact that Mozart didn't also write the libretto to The Magic Flute. Before Fischer, people only ever put wins in their game collections, and entitled them 'So-and-So's Best Games'. Fischer knew he was the best, so he prioritized interesting games, even if there were a few he didn't win. He includes his horribly painful loss to Spassky, where Spassky surprised him by playing the King's Gambit, at that time a completely unfashionable choice. Fischer was so angry that he went off, and a few months later published his famous article containing what he claimed to be a refutation of this opening.
He also has the equally unpleasant loss to Geller, where they got into a complicated middle-game position with competing attacks, and Fischer missed a forced win. Most people would just have tried to forget these games, not wanted to tell the whole world about them.
Of course, most of the games are wins. It feels a bit silly to recommend specific examples; it's rather like telling people that Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII is quite good, and Hamlet isn't bad either. 
But, if I had to pick one out, I guess the 1963 game against Robert Byrne.
Fischer plays an incredibly complex and well-calculated sacrifice; according to legend (I will be so disappointed if I discover this isn't in fact true) the commentator was saying that Fischer had got it wrong and Byrne was winning, when Byrne, having seen more deeply, finally understood the point of Fischer's idea and resigned. You don't see that kind of thing very often. But then you don't see talent like Fischer's very often either. In any field. D'Angelo: Now look, check it, it's simple, it's simple.