How to Beat Bobby Fischer

by Edmar Mednis

Even chess legend Bobby Fischer occasionally lost matches, and his rare defeats offer valuable lessons for ordinary players. This intriguing collection, compiled by a noted chess master, features comprehensive text-and-diagram analyses of 61 of Fischer's losing games. Highlights include "the losing moment," the move at which each game was beyond saving.

Genres: Chess

320 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1974

Reviews

[Manny]

This book collects together all the games that Fischer lost during his chess career. There is some rather light annotation, focusing on what the author considers to be Fischer's losing move in each game.

Mednis actually did manage to win a game against Fischer, so I guess he was entitled to write it. I still can't help being reminded of Oolon Coluphid's famous trilogy, Where God Went Wrong, Some More Of God's Mistakes and Who Is This God Person Anyway?

[Tim Reisner]

A nice idea for a chess book. And you can never have too much Fischer. Tibor Karolyi did threw same project for Kasparov.

[bluetyson]

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