Frank Brady

Este libro es la biografía de Bobby Fischer. Lectura obligada para cualquier aficionado al ajedrez así como una lectura fascinante para cualquier persona interesada en la vida de un genio torturado. Un gran trabajo de investigacion da como resultado un libro devastador y emocionante. Es la obra maestra de su autor Frank Brady y ha sido New York Time Best Seller. Por fin traducido al español. Prologo de Leontxo Garcia.Frank Brady es el autor de numerosas biografias aclamadas por los criticos Onassis, Barbara Streisand, Orson Welles- incluida Bobby Fischer: Perfil de un Prodigio (la primera edicion que aparecio en 1965 y se centra en el joven Bobby). Brady era hasta hace muy poco el director del Departamento de Comunicacion de la Universidad St. John, lugar donde continua como profesor. Es el presidente del prestigioso Marshall Chess Club. Brady siguio la trayectoria de Bobby Fischer desde su infancia ya que conocia a su madre y al propio Bobby desde que este empezo a jugar al ajedrez.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who was Bobby Fischer? In this nuanced perspective of the chess genius (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed biographer chronicles his meteoric rise and confounding fall, with an afterword containing newly discovered details about Fischers life. 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 heros welcome, Bobby was mobbed wherever he wenta figure as exotic and improbable as any American pop culture had yet produced. Commercial sponsorship offers poured in, ultimately topping $10 millionbut 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 rematchbut 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 fugitiveone drawn increasingly to the bizarre. Drawing from Fischer family archives, recently released FBI files, and Bobbys own emails, Endgame is unique in that it limns Bobby Fischers entire lifean 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.

When Bobby Fischer died in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life: he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him. What motivated him from such a young age, and what was the source of his remarkable intellect? How could a man so ambivalent about money and fame be so driven to succeed? What drew this man of Jewish descent to fulminate against Jews, and how was it that a mind so famously disciplined could unravel so completely? From his meteoric rise, to an utterly dominant prime, to his eventual descent into madness, the book draws upon hundreds of newly discovered documents and recordings, and numerous firsthand interviews conducted with those who knew Fischer best, to paint, for the very first time, a complete picture of one of the most enigmatic icons. This is the definitive account of a fascinating man and an extraordinary life, one that at last reconciles Fischers deeply contradictory legacy and answers the question: Who was Bobby Fischer?