60 memorable games

Checkout using your account Email Address. Sign In Forgot Your Password? Checkout as a new customer Creating an account has many benefits: See order and shipping status Track order history Check out faster Create an Account. Product Code: BBT. In this authoritative reissue of one of the most important chess books ever written, the great Bobby Fischer takes the reader move by move through 60 of his most instructive and entertaining games, including the astounding 'Game of the Century' played when he was only 15 years old!

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He shows the strategic considerations, the tactics, and sometimes the blunders, that occur during the pressure of tournament play. Each game has, in addition to Fischer's own annotations, an analytical introduction by International Grandmaster Larry Evans. There are no reviews yet. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of My 60 Memorable Games. Nov 20, Manny rated it it was amazing Shelves: games. If you're a chess player and you haven't read this book I'm struggling to complete the sentence. It's sort of like you claim to be a Christian, but haven't read the Bible. You'd better do something about it! The short-list for "greatest chess player of all time" only has two names: Fischer and Kasparov. Kasparov had the unquestionable advantage of being sane, so he lasted much longer.

But when Fischer was in the zone, he was so ferociously unstoppable that no real comparison is available. No o If you're a chess player and you haven't read this book No one else has ever won a Candidates match World Championship quarter-final and subsequent with a clean sweep. Fischer did it twice. My 60 Memorable Games is his only book. He wasn't really a writer, and apparently he had to get help from Larry Evans to do the parts that weren't just game annotations.

It matters about as much as the fact that Mozart didn't also write the libretto to The Magic Flute. Before Fischer, people only ever put wins in their game collections, and entitled them "So-and-So's Best Games".

Fischer knew he was the best, so he prioritized interesting games, even if there were a few he didn't win. He includes his horribly painful loss to Spassky, where Spassky surprised him by playing the King's Gambit, at that time a completely unfashionable choice.

Fischer was so angry that he went off, and a few months later published his famous article containing what he claimed to be a refutation of this opening. He also has the equally unpleasant loss to Geller, where they got into a complicated middle-game position with competing attacks, and Fischer missed a forced win. Most people would just have tried to forget these games, not wanted to tell the whole world about them.

Of course, most of the games are wins. It feels a bit silly to recommend specific examples; it's rather like telling people that Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII is quite good, and Hamlet isn't bad either. But, if I had to pick one out, I guess the game against Robert Byrne. Fischer plays an incredibly complex and well-calculated sacrifice; according to legend I will be so disappointed if I discover this isn't in fact true the commentator was saying that Fischer had got it wrong and Byrne was winning, when Byrne, having seen more deeply, finally understood the point of Fischer's idea and resigned.

You don't see that kind of thing very often. But then you don't see talent like Fischer's very often either. In any field. View all 51 comments. Feb 17, Paul Bryant rated it it was amazing Shelves: all-kinds-of-everything. D'Angelo: Now look, check it, it's simple, it's simple. See this? This the kingpin, aright? And he the man. You get the other dude's king, you got the game. But he trying to get your king too, so you gotta protect it. Now, the king, he move one space any direction he damn choose, 'cause he's the king.

Like this, this, this, aright? But he ain't got no hustle. But the rest of these motherfuckers on the team, they got his back. And they run so deep, he really ain't gotta do shit. Bodie: Like your u D'Angelo: Now look, check it, it's simple, it's simple. Bodie: Like your uncle. D'Angelo: Yeah, like my uncle. You see this? This the queen. She smart, she fast. She move any way she want, as far as she want. And she is the go-get-shit-done piece.

Wallace: Remind me of Stringer. D'Angelo: And this over here is the castle. Like the stash. It can move like this, and like this. Wallace: Dog, stash don't move, man. D'Angelo: C'mon, yo, think. How many time we move the stash house this week? And every time we move the stash, we gotta move a little muscle with it, right? To protect it.

Bodie: True, true, you right. Aright, what about them little baldheaded bitches right there? D'Angelo: These right here, these are the pawns.