Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess

Author: Robert James "Bobby"Fischer (1943-2008) signed Year: 1959Publisher: Museum PressPlace: LondonDescription: xix+97 pages with tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. (Betts: 29-41) First British 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 became both the