1113: Endgame: 1of1: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness. by Frank Brady Kindle Edition
Photo: Bobby Fischer in 1971 This is an image from the Nationaal Archief (https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/en) , the Dutch National Archives, donated in the context of a partnership program (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Nationaal_Archief) . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Endgame: 1of1: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness Kindle Edition. by Frank Brady (https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Brady/e/B001H6WLL2/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) (Author) Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Endgame-Fischers-Remarkable-Americas-Brightest-ebook/dp/B003EI2EI6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=brady+bobby+fischer&qid=1612656647&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Possessing an IQ of 181 and remarkable powers of concentration, Bobby Fischer memorized hundreds of chess books in several languages, and he was only thirteen 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 hundreds of petty demands that nearly ended the competition. It was merely a prelude to what was to come. Arriving back in the United States to a hero’s welcome, Bobby was mobbed wherever he went—a figure as exotic and improbable as any American pop culture had yet produced. Commercial sponsorship offers poured in, ultimately topping $10 million—but Bobby demurred. Instead, he began tithing his limited money to an apocalyptic religion and devouring anti-Semitic literature. Bobby reemerged in 1992 to play Spassky in a multi-million dollar rematch—but when the dust settled, he was a wanted man, transformed into an international fugitive because of his decision to play in Montenegro despite U.S. sanctions. Fearing for his life, traveling with bodyguards, Bobby lived the life of a celebrity fugitive—one drawn increasingly to the bizarre. Drawing from Fischer family archives, recently released FBI files, and Bobby’s own emails, Endgame is unique in that it limns Bobby Fischer’s entire life—an odyssey that took the 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.