Bobby Fischer's Game of Chess
- New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good. Publisher's gray cloth with chess motif. 97 pp. Contemporary ink gift inscription to upper pastedown and some contemporary ink marginalia, otherwise a clean copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with spine sunned. Some small tears to edges of jacket and amateur tape reinforcement to inside of jacket at crown. A Very Good+ copy in the Very Good dust jacket.
Bobby Fischer wrote the present work when he was just fifteen and, at the time, the youngest chess Grandmaster in history. Bobby Fischer's Game of Chess collects and annotates thirty-four games played in his early career, including his famous "Game of the Century" – thirteen-year-old Fischer's win over Donald Byrne, an International Master, in 1956. Fischer's writing on chess was one of his major contributions to the game: his later book, My 60 Memorable Games (1969), picks up where Game of Chess leaves off, and has become a standard book in chess instruction. Very Good + in Very Good dust jacket.
Bobby Fischer wrote the present work when he was just fifteen and, at the time, the youngest chess Grandmaster in history. Bobby Fischer's Game of Chess collects and annotates thirty-four games played in his early career, including his famous "Game of the Century" – thirteen-year-old Fischer's win over Donald Byrne, an International Master, in 1956. Fischer's writing on chess was one of his major contributions to the game: his later book, My 60 Memorable Games (1969), picks up where Game of Chess leaves off, and has become a standard book in chess instruction. Very Good + in Very Good dust jacket.