AThe Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, June 28, 1959
Book by U.S. Champion Bobby Fischer Contains His Best Tournament Games
This seems to be the season for spawning chess books, and today we have another for review—a fledgling book by a fledgling player.
But this author, while a fledgling in years, is a giant in chess stature. He is 16-year-old Bobby Fischer, reigning American champion and the youngest international grandmaster of all time.
It is particularly gratifying, therefore, to report that the New York publishing firm of Simon and Schuster has now put into book form at $2.95, the first collection of celebrated tournament games played by young Fischer. There are 34 in all.
Most games are thoroughly analyzed by Bobby, and each annotation provides an insight into the kind of thinking that has thrust the American prodigy into the top echelon of his contemporaries and made him an international celebrity.
Included are the 13 games from the United States Championship Tournament of 1957-58 and the “Game of the Century” from the Third Rosenwald Trophy Tournament. In addition, the book carries Fischer's 20 games from the 1958 Portoroz Interzonal in which he played against the world's elite—among them Tal, Gligorich, Petrosyan, and Bronstein.
One objection to the selection of games: There are too many draws.
