My daughter needs to write a biography for a school project and would like
to use Bobby Fischer as her subject. Could anyone recommend a good
biography or some sources for biographical information.

Thank you

Subject: Fischer Biography?

On 5 January 2004 "Stevek" wrote in
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My daughter needs to write a biography for a school project and would like
to use Bobby Fischer as her subject. Could anyone recommend a good
biography or some sources for biographical information.

Thank you



If you can get your hands on Frank Brady's "Profile of a Prodigy," you'll have
a good Fischer biography.
My personal favorite, however, is not available in English. It is the
German-language edition of "Das Schachphaenomen: Robert Fischer," written by
H. Kramer and S.H. Postma and translated (from the Dutch) by Ludwig Rellstab.

George Mirijanian

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 03:07:10 GMT, "Stevek"
wrote:

My daughter needs to write a biography for a school project and would like
to use Bobby Fischer as her subject. Could anyone recommend a good
biography or some sources for biographical information.

I don't know if these are the best, but I have:

1. Profile of a Prodigy, by Frank Brady, but it was written in the
mid-60s so it didn't cover his whole career. At least that is my
edition, there might be a later edition.

2. The Games of Robert J. Fischer, by Wade and O'connell. It contains
mostly games, but there are several good chapters written by various
people.

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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 03:07:10 GMT, "Stevek"
wrote:

My daughter needs to write a biography for a school project and would like
to use Bobby Fischer as her subject. Could anyone recommend a good
biography or some sources for biographical information.

Here is a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer


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I have Croatian edition of the book by Dimitrije Bjelica "My friend
Bobby Fischer". I don't know if it has been translated into english,
but it's a very good book.

"Jud McCranie" wrote in message
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

Except that Fischer did not "[sit] out the Interzonals" -- he in fact
crushed the field at Palma 1970. And the article confuses "adjudications"
and "adjournments."

Jud McCranie writes:

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 03:07:10 GMT, "Stevek"
wrote:

My daughter needs to write a biography for a school project and would like
to use Bobby Fischer as her subject. Could anyone recommend a good
biography or some sources for biographical information.

Here is a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

Of course she could try finding "The Games of Robert J. Fischer" by Robert Wade and Kevin O'Connell (Batsford 1972). I liked it a lot - and it has just about all games up to and including the WC match against Spassky.
Several biograhpical articles in there as well.

/M.

Jud McCranie writes:


2. The Games of Robert J. Fischer, by Wade and O'connell. It contains
mostly games, but there are several good chapters written by various
people.

Oops I just sent that tip.
It's quite nice I think.

/M.

"Jud McCranie" wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 03:07:10 GMT, "Stevek"
wrote:

My daughter needs to write a biography for a school project and would
like
to use Bobby Fischer as her subject. Could anyone recommend a good
biography or some sources for biographical information.

I don't know if these are the best, but I have:

1. Profile of a Prodigy, by Frank Brady, but it was written in the
mid-60s so it didn't cover his whole career. At least that is my
edition, there might be a later edition.

snip

The revised edition covers his career right through the 1972 world
championship.

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My daughter needs to write a biography for a school project and would like
to use Bobby Fischer as her subject. Could anyone recommend a good
biography or some sources for biographical information.

Thank you

In addition to Frank Brady's "Bobby Fischer : Profile of a Prodigy (Revised
Edition)," an absolute must read is Rene Chun's article "Bobby Fischer's
Pathetic Endgame" in the December, 2002 "Atlantic" magazine. While it came
in for some criticism in this newsgroup for its "inaccuracies," it must be
said that any such errors were trivial factoids, not going to the basic
thrust of the article, which is that in the years since the height of his
fame, Fischer suffered severe mental deterioration.