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Reddit mentions of Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness. Here are the top ones.
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| Color | Multicolor |
| Height | 7.93 Inches |
| Length | 5.24 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | January 2012 |
| Weight | 0.85 Pounds |
| Width | 0.98 Inches |
Ooooh, a question near and dear to my heart. I don't think you'll find many chess books without annotated games, but you can certainly find chess books where biography and context are at least just as important. In my opinion, the best books in this category are almost all published by McFarland and Co. If you browse Amazon, look for books by Andy Soltis or Edward Winter. If you're looking for a specific player or era, let me know. I've bought and read lots of chess biographies.
Here's my top 5 so far:
Soviet Chess 1917-1991 (Andy Soltis)
Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Mikhail Tal)
Endgame (Frank Brady)
Mikhail Botvinnik: The Life and Games of a World Chess Champion (Andy Soltis)
William Steinitz, Chess Champion: A Biography of the Bohemian Caesar (Kurt Landsberger)
Read Endgame by Frank Brady. He's a genuine biographer and actually knew Fischer when he was a kid. Even as a non-chess player, once can appreciate the life story of Bobby Fischer.
For chess players/fans, read Svetozar Gligoric's book on the 1972 match. It's arguably once of the best books I've ever read. Gligoric annotates the games and gives a blow-by-blow account of the action behind the scenes, as well as at the board.