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REUBEN FINE: A COMPREHENSIVE RECORD OF AN AMERICAN CHESS CAREER, 1929-1951

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Aidan Woodger
American Grandmaster Reuben Fine grew up in the East Bronx in an impoverished Russian-Jewish family, learning to play chess from an uncle at the age of eight. During his high school years, his stake winnings and coins earned from playing at a Coney Island concession helped support his family. After graduating from college, he decided to become a professional player. Though his active international career was brief, his accomplishment and talent are unmistakably significant.
This comprehensive collection of 659 of Reuben Fine’s tournament and match games is presented chronologically, in context, and with annotations from contemporary sources. More than 180 other games and game fragments (rapid transit, correspondence, exhibition, blitz, and others) are also included. The work also includes a biography of Fine, and notes aspects of his career that merit further study: his contribution to endgame and middlegame theory, his methods and style of play, and his exhibition play. Fine’s career results, brief biographical data about his opponents, a comprehensive bibliography that includes his contributions to journals, and indexes of players and of openings complete the work.
Published 2004, hardback, 399 pages.
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JULIUS FINN

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Olimpiu Urcan
A Chess Master's Life in America 1871-1931
Julius Finn was born in Russian Poland, and came to New York in 1887 at the age of 16. From a humble start as a street peddler on the Lower East Side, Finn swiftly rose to become New York's champion chess master and one of the country's best blindfold chess entertainers. Finn's chess success contributed to the rise of the chess scene in the Big Apple in the early twentieth century, and he fared equally well in business, parlaying his skills into a highly successful career. Along with a foreword by John S. Hilbert, this biography of Finn in America includes analysis of 96 of his chess games - most of them previously unknown or little studied - line drawings of game situations, and photographs.
Award-winning journalist Olimpiu G. Urcan writes for Chess Cafe, Quarterly for Chess History, Chess Monthly and New in Chess Magazine. A Romanian native, he lives in Singapore.
Published 2010, hardback, 283 pages.

BOBBY FISCHER COMPLETE GAMES ...

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Lou Hays (Ed)
The largest collection of Fischer games assembled so far contains 1043 games played between 1955 and 1992. This includes tournament and exhibition games. The games have no annotations although each is accompanied by a diagram. The book also includes indexes of opponents and openings, tournament crosstables and a guide to Fischer's 100 most significant games.
xPublished 1995, softback, 288 pages.

BOBBY FISCHER: CAREER & COMPLETE GAMES

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Karsten Muller
The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
Whether Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever is arguable but he did single-handedly break the Soviet Union's post war domination of the chess world and did more to popularise chess in the West than any other player before or since.
For this book German Grandmaster Karsten Muller has annotated each of Fischer's available match and tournament games (735 in all) which are presented in chronological order so that the story of Fischer's rise to the chess summit can be followed through his play.
The book also includes an opening survey by Andy Soltis, photographs, tournament tables, commentary putting Fischer's play into perspective and a foreword from Fischer's friend Grandmaster Larry Evans.
This has to be the best presented Fischer game collection published to date.
Published 2009, softback, 408 pages.

BOBBY FISCHER FOR BEGINNERS

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Renzo Verwer
This introduction to the most famous chess player ever includes a 65 page biography which chronicles the most important events from Fischer's life and chess career, both before and after he became World Champion. His youth in Brooklyn, his astonishing career, his many conflicts, his strange claims and beliefs, his girlfriends and his tragic death in exile in Iceland in 2008 is all included.
This is followed by a selection of ten of Fischer's best games with light annotations and a list of Fischer's tournament results.
Published 2010, softback, 127 pages.

BOBBY FISCHER: FROM CHESS GENIUS TO LEGEND

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Edward Gufeld
Part one of this book is mainly a translation of "Bobby Fischer: Legends and the Truth" published in the Ukraine. Drawing on anecdotes from contemporaries and descriptions taken from a wide range sources, former Soviet GM, the late Edward Gufeld provides a description of Fischer's chess career upto about 1975 and complements it with a selection of Fischer's best games. In part two, entitled Bobby Fischer: An Attempt at Analysis, Carlos Almaza-Mato dissects Fischer's playing style and shows, with example games, how he developed a successful, practical approach to the game. In further parts there are also reminiscences from Icelandic organiser Gudmundur Thorarinsson, GM Wolfgang Unzicker, Bragi Kristjansson and Bob Long. There are games and photographic reprints in and amongst the text throughout. How much of this is new to you will depend on what other Fischer books you already own but some is sure to be.
Published 2002, softback, 190 pages.

BOBBY FISCHER: HIS APPROACH TO CHESS

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Elie Agur
This is really a textbook on middlegame play based around the way Fischer handles this phase of the game from a technical and psychological point of view. There are chapters on pawn structures, tactics, playing to win, alertness, reducing the opponent's chances and on blunders and missed opportunities. A very well presented book on Fischer's style but not a game collection.
Published 1992, softback, 276 pages.

BOBBY FISCHER: PROFILE OF A PRODIGY

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Frank Brady
Frank Brady has known Fischer since the latter was eleven and writes from first hand experience of Fischer's rise to the top of the chess world. The book includes a complete biography upto 1972, 90 annotated games and a detailed account of the 1972 World Championship match. Also included are several pages of photographs. (In English descriptive notation)
Published 1989(73), descriptive notation, softback, 448 pages.

HOW TO BEAT BOBBY FISCHER

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Edmar Mednis
Contains 61 of Fischer's defeats, all annotated with text and diagrams and each with the losing moment defined, together with statistics of openings, opponents and reasons for his defeat. Whilst the average reader is unlikely to play Fischer it is interesting to understand the type of mistakes made by very strong players. Author Edmar Mednis is a Grandmaster and has several popular chess titles to his name.

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LEARN FROM BOBBY FISCHER'S GREATEST GAMES

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Eric Schiller
This book features 24 of ex World Champion Bobby Fischer's greatest games with clear text explanation of the moves and plenty of diagrams throughout. Schiller includes a glossary of chess terms and an introduction to chess notation so that even those new to the game can follow and appreciate Fischer's play. Bobby Fischer was World Champion 1972-75 and one of the strongest players of all time with a clear, logical playing style which is easy to understand (if not to emulate!) and therefore highly instructive.
Published 2004, softback, 224 pages.

LEGEND ON THE ROAD (2nd ed)

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John Donaldson
A Legend on the Road is an in-depth look at Bobby Fischer's 1964 simultaneous exhibition tour of the USA and Canada. The tour gave US club players a chance to meet Fischer and get to know him as well as play against him. The book features newspaper articles, personal reminiscences, photographs and 191 games from the exhibitions. This second, revised and enlarged, edition contains new material including a rediscovered exhibition in Indianapolis, first hand accounts from San Francisco, Little Rock and Pittsburgh and several new games and photos. It also contains all the material from the first edition and from the book "The Unknown Bobby Fischer". A "must have" book for all fans of Bobby Fischer. Author John Donaldson is a U.S. International Master.
Published 2005, softback, 198 pages.

RUSSIANS VERSUS FISCHER

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Dmitry Plisetsky & Sergey Voronkov
A new, enlarged and updated edition of this amazing book! To quote from the introduction: "The idea of this book occurred to us, ten years ago, when we chanced upon confidential documents of the Chess Federation and the Sports Committee of the USSR from the early 1970’s. All the documents concerned Bobby Fischer ... Official letters by leading Soviet GMs containing a detailed analysis of Fischer’s personality and playing, documents of methodological meetings of the country’s chess leadership devoted to the Fischer problem." Includes 158 of Fischer’s games against Soviet GMs with comments by the players and their trainers and many anecdotes about Fischer as seen by his Soviet contemporaries. Taimanov reveals what happened to him after his 6-0 defeat in Vancouver. This is a revealing insight into the Soviet chess heirarchy’s attempts to defeat their most serious challenger.
pub. 2005, hardback, 462 pages.

LEO FORGACS

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W A Foldeak
Brief biography & 62 annotated games of the early C19th Hungarian player.
pub. 1999, stapled, 56 pages.