Bobby Fischer Goes to War
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War

The most famous chess match of all time

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eBook - ePub

Bobby Fischer Goes to War

The most famous chess match of all time

About this book

PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT

'Gripping.'
SUNDAY TIMES

'Pure drama.'
INDEPENDENT

'Compelling.'
NEW YORK TIMES

Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one of the most thrilling and politically charged chess matches of all time.

For decades, the USSR had dominated world chess. Evidence, according to Moscow, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and obsessive - and apparently unstoppable.

Against him was Boris Spassky: complex, sensitive, the most un-Soviet of champions. As the authors reveal, when Spassky began to lose, the KGB decided to step in. . .

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780571282944
Subtopic
Political Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. NOTE ON THE TRANSLITERATION OF RUSSIAN
  7. Dramatis Personae
  8. World Chess Champions to 1969
  9. CHAPTER 1 : Match of the Century
  10. CHAPTER 2 : Brooklyn Boy
  11. CHAPTER 3 : Mimophant
  12. CHAPTER 4 : Child of Destruction
  13. CHAPTER 5 : The Russian from Leningrad
  14. CHAPTER 6 : Living Chess
  15. CHAPTER 7 : Bulldozer to Reykjavik
  16. CHAPTER 8 : Trouble in Paradise
  17. CHAPTER 9 : Big Contest, Little Island
  18. CHAPTER 10 : Bobby Is Missing
  19. CHAPTER 11 : Who’s Sorry Now?
  20. CHAPTER 12 : Rage Rules
  21. CHAPTER 13 : Blood in the Back Room
  22. CHAPTER 14 : Eyeball to Eyeball
  23. CHAPTER 15 : A Love–Hate Relationship
  24. CHAPTER 16 : Smashed
  25. CHAPTER 17 : Middle Game
  26. CHAPTER 18 : Chess Contagion
  27. CHAPTER 19 : To the Bitter End
  28. CHAPTER 20 : Extra-chess Means and Hidden Hands
  29. CHAPTER 21 : Adversary Partners
  30. CHAPTER 22 : Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown
  31. Acknowledgements
  32. Picture Credits
  33. Appendix
  34. Glossary
  35. Select Bibliography
  36. Index
  37. About David Edmonds and John Eidnow
  38. By the Same Authors
  39. Copyright

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