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*Endgame *is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding *descent*—of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. Only Brady, who met Fischer when the prodigy was only 10 and shared with him some of his most dramatic triumphs, could have written this book, which has much to say about the nature of American celebrity and the distorting effects of fame. Drawing from Fischer family archives, recently released FBI files, and Bobby’s own emails, this account is unique in that it limns Fischer’s *entire* life—an odyssey that took the Brooklyn-raised chess champion from an impoverished childhood to the covers of *Time, Life *and *Newsweek *to recognition as “the most famous man in the world” to notorious recluse.At first all one noticed was how gifted Fischer was. Possessing a 181 I.Q. and remarkable powers of concentration, Bobby memorized* *hundreds of chess books in several languages, and he was only 13 when he became the youngest chess master in U.S. history. But his strange behavior started early. In 1972, at the historic Cold War showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he faced Soviet champion Boris Spassky, Fischer made headlines

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Author
Brady, Frank
Publisher
Broadway Books
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307463906
Category
history
Subjects
Sports, Anthropology, Historical Fiction
Rating
3.96 / 5 (27 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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