On Apr 22, 6:19 pm, Mike Murray wrote:

Just compare that slim volume with the quality of his masterpiece to
see the enormous influence of GM Larry Evans on Bobby's path to the
world championship.

The hype was that BF did it "all by himself", with
no help from anybody. The real question is, who
helped him more-- Larry Evans, John Collins, Ed
Edmondson, or his mother?


The fact that Fischer wrote the first book when he was 15 and the
second when he was 26 might also have something to do with it. :-)

What a tragedy that Fischer and Evans never collaborated on subsequent
volumes of Fischer's later memorable games.

Bobby Fischer did not peak until the brief period,
say, 1970-1972, so his prior works not only missed
the best part of his career, they also focused on
"the wrong games", so to speak, and all those
annotations were written by a somewhat weaker
BF.

Larry Evans did a great job with MSMG, but BF
himself nixed so many things that could have, and
most likely would have, been even bigger and better.
He was afraid of being caught making an analytical
error; afraid of being human.

But, back to the stories about WWI; I was stunned
to see that, like me, Larry Parr remembered that in
our day, this war was called "The Great War". That
is, it was called that until an even better one
eventually along... .


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