1959 BOBBY FISCHER'S Games of Chess, 1st Edition First Printing Dust Jacket Fine

Description: This is a terrific condition copy of "BOBBY FISCHER'S Games of Chess" with its original dust jacket. 1959 1st edition, 1st printing (stated); Simon and Schuster; New York. The book was published when Fischer was just 15 years old. The contents are organized as follows: Introduction; Publisher's Note; U.S. Championship Games (New York, N.Y., December 17, 1957, to January 8, 1958); U.S. Championship Tournament Box Score; The Game of the Century; Interzonal Tournament Games (Portoroz, Yugoslavia, August 5, 1958, to September 12, 1958); Interzonal Box Score. From the dust jacket: "There are 34 games in this book. The 13 from the U.S. Championship Tournament of 1957-58 and the prize-winning 'Game of the Century' from the Third Rosewald Trophy Tournament are penetratingly analyzed by Bobby Fischer, whose annotations provide invaluable instructions to the chess player of either average or advanced ability. In addition, this book includes scores of Bobby Fischer's 20 games from the 1958 Portoroz Interzonal Tournament in which he played against the world's elite in chess, among them Tal, Gligorich, Petrosyan, and Bronstein. The games in this book reveal Bobby Fischer's brilliance in middle and end-game strategy, and also the latest and soundest treatments of popular openings - in particular, the Sicicilian and King's Indian defenses. By playing these games over, the reader will become familiar with the patterns of the latest and soundest lines in chess, and will automatically begin to make stronger moves in his own games."

Price: 575 USD

Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire

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