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Endgame: Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall -- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness by Frank Brady [Brady, Frank] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 covers 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 with hundred
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- Author
- Frank Brady [Brady, Frank]
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307463906
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sports, Anthropology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.96 / 5 (27 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall of Bobby Fischer -- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness (2011)
- Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall of Bobby Fischer -- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness (1923)
- Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall of Bobby Fischer -- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness (2010)
- Endgame: Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall -- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness (2010)
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