This is a 1966 1st edition of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. Brought up in Brooklyn, Fischer became a US chess champion at 14 and then the youngest grandmaster a year later. He won the world championship match in Iceland in 1972.
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This is a 1966 1st edition of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. Brought up in Brooklyn, Fischer became a US chess champion at 14 and then the youngest grandmaster a year later. He won the world championship match in Iceland in 1972.
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This post marks Bobby Fischer's recent passing last Thursday, January 17th.
Posted by: abby | 22 January 2008 at 05:05 PM
hi abby,
i read his obituary notice in the Japanese newspaper.
(i got to know about him for the first time.)
his life was unprecedented...
Posted by: Miho Sakato | 22 January 2008 at 11:03 PM