Bobby Fischer’s Games of Chess.

FISCHER, Bobby.

Item Number: 2129

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.

First edition of the only book ever written entirely by Bobby Fischer. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Bobby Fischer on the front free endpaper. Light wear to the bottom boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket.

This is the only book ever authored entirely by Bobby Fischer, and it was written when he was fifteen. It has historical significance as a prelude to the rest of the chess player's career. Within, Fischer analyses thirty-four games. He reflects on the experiences of thirteen games from the U.S. Championship Tournament of 1957-58 as well as the prize-winning "Game of the Century" from the Third Rosenwald Trophy Tournament. He also includes the scores of twenty games from the 1958 Portoroz Interzonal Tournament in which he played against Tal, Gligorich, Petrosyan, Bronstein, and more of the world's elite. The games in this book reveal Bobby Fischer's brilliance in middle and end-game strategy.