Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

"Excellent read!" according to Jace Perham. Absolutely, positively, the best book on the life of Bobby Fischer I've ever read! Nothing else comes close! The details Mr. Brady goes into about Bobby Fischer's life, both personal and his chess career, left me very satisfied and content that there is nothing more to learn about Bobby Fischer. This book is so well written that when I put it down, I couldn't wait to pick it up again. An easy read; there are no actual games in this book so you don't have to. Pretty Good Biography Mr.Chunky Monkey I just finished the book. It was interesting to read from start to finish. It describes Bobby Fischer from childhood to the end of his life and provides a deep look into his personality and character. The author describes Fischer's good traits as well as the bad.Aside from psychosocial and biographical information about Bobby Fischer, the books also goes over a number of details of the world at the time of any given time period in Bobby's life.I really cann. J. Russell said The real Bobby Fischer. If you've ever wanted to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the life of Bobby Fischer this book will do it for you, and in the process providing an intimate insight and behind the scenes look into America's Chess Champion. Fascinating reading, good insight into human nature, and the revelation that Fischer might not have been quite the child prodigy we assume. His brilliance seems to have come in spurts and spells, and he suffered many defeats both

This is the definitive account of a fascinating man and an extraordinary life, one that at last reconciles Fischer's deeply contradictory legacy and answers the question, who was Bobby Fischer?. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. It paints, for the very first time, a complete picture of one of America's most enigmatic icons. 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. From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the best-selling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer's, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer's life. But nobody truly understood him.What motivated Fischer from such a young age, and what was the source of his remarkable intellect? How could a man so ambivalent about money and fame be so driven to succeed? What drew this man of Jewish descent to fulminate against Jews, and how was it that a mind so famously disciplined could unravel s