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Profile of a Prodigy: The Life and Games of Bobby Fischer

Frank Brady

Revealing biography of the controversial chess champion, written by a chess player who knew Fischer since the latter was 11. It chronicles Fischer's tumultuous public and private lives, including an analysis of 90 games that trace his rise to supremacy plus a complete history of the1972 Fischer-Spassky match. 26 photographs.

435 pages

English edition · First published 1973 by David McKay Co · ISBN 9780679500759

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