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The Chess of Bobby Fischer by Robert E Burger Book The Chess of Bobby Fischer by Robert E Burger book Ebook The Chess of Bobby Fischer currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook The Chess of Bobby Fischer please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 348 pages+++Publisher:::: Ishi Press (November 8, 2011)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 4871874559+++ISBN-13:::: 978-4871874557+++Product Dimensions::::5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches++++++ ISBN10 4871874559 ISBN13 978-4871874 Download here >> Description: Bobby Fischer is regarded as the greatest chess player of all time. A movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer” was made about two of the times he disappeared. Although there are many books about Bobby Fischer, this is the only one that deals in depth with his second, in 1992, match against Boris Spassky and the one that explores in greatest depth his playing style and thought process. In The Chess of Bobby Fischer, the author employs his long experience as a chess analyst to transform the technique and insight of the greatest player of all time into a unique teaching tool. This, he shows, is how a great player wins games. Robert Burger first got to know Bobby as a precocious youngster when, in 1957, Fischers mother called him to ask if he would watch over Bobby in San Francisco at the U.S. Junior Championship. As a director of The Mechanics Institute, where the tournament was held, Burger was also familiar to the participants as the co-editor of The California Chess Reporter. A National Master, Burger also has the distinction of being a grandmaster of chess composition, of the U.S. Chess Problem Society. He is also a Fellow of the British Chess Problem Society and the author of numerous nonfiction books. Among his other chess books are Grandmaster Chess and The Unknown Tal. He has reported on chess tourneys and matches throughout Europe. Among his collaborators on chess books have been Isaac Kashdan and Vladimir Nabokov (yes, that one!). The current edition of this classic is the most complete, referencing the second Fischer- Spassky match -- in Yugoslavia in 1992. Burger has always maintained that the real Bobby was among the most generous and statesmanlike of grandmasters, with this anecdote as an example: In 1964, when Bobby made his first, great tour of the United States following his sweep of the U.S. Championship, Burger was one of thirty players in a simul at Mechanics Institute in San Francisco. On the twelfth move, Fischer resigned after seeing that he had lost a piece. Robert Burger is especially noted for the one game, his win against Bobby Fischer in 1964. I consider myself a chess enthusiast and this is a great book that uses Fischers games to illustrate different kinds of tactical, strategic, and endgame principals so you can apply them to your own games. In my opinion, Fischer is arguably the greatest player of all time and this book gives great insight into his mind and way of thinking. Although I never reached the great heights of the chess world that Fischer did, studying this book greatly improved my chess understanding and play. The Chess of Bobby Fischer in Humor and Entertainment pdf books The Chess of Bobby Fischer Six years later, in February 1973, he was to Bovby his life in a failed chess to launch a guerrilla war in the mountains west of Santo Domingo. All of the Weird School books are The gifts formy granddaughter who really loves them and is collecting them all. Shipped correctly and wrapped well. Much like a large college lecture class: those who really care about the material will sit up and take bobbies, while those who have a more casual interest might find themselves snoozing through portions of it. 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