Bobby Fischer is considered to have been one of the world’s most brilliant chess players – ever. But Fischer was a troubled genius. He dropped out of sight after winning the 1972 World Championship against Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
In an insightful new Fischer biography, Endgame, Frank Brady writes that the chess prodigy was a man of paradox: “Bobby was secretive, yet candid; generous, yet parsimonious; naive, yet well informed; cruel, yet kind; religious, yet heretical.
Read an excerpt of the new book, here.
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