Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess

Author: Robert James "Bobby"Fischer (1943-2008) Year: 1959Publisher: Simon and SchusterPlace: New YorkDescription:xix+97 pages with tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with black and red lettering to spine and chess piece pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. (Betts: 29-41) First edition.It contains an introduction by Fischer with an account of his chess career from May 1955 to May 1958. Fourteen annotated games (thirteen from the 1957-58 United States Championship and one from the 1956 Rosenwald Tournament) and his twenty one games, without notes, from the 1958 Portoroz Intentional Tournament.Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a brilliancy known as "The Game of the Century". At age 14, he became the US Chess Champion, and at 15, he beca