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Originally posted by Sicilian SmaugIt's all about the original meeting in 1972.
Any good?
The first half of the3 book set the scene, which made for a tough read, as you get a brief history of both players, then the run up to the meeting in Iceland. After that it speeds up a bit, but considering what actually happened, you wonder why anybody wasted their time on Fischer at all.
At the moment i'm at the start of game 6 when Fischer opened with the English.
The book has helped a lot in giving me a bit of knowledge of the games recent history, and i understand more of the "only Chess" forum now. When you think about the Toilet fiasco going on at the moment, you wonder if maybe all World championships are similar.
Well worth a read.
Bobby Fischer Goes to war
By David Edmonds & John Eidinow
Originally posted by Sicilian SmaugYeah, but maybe it'll get a bit more in deapth later (i'm just over half way through).
So is less like a usual chess book going in depth about positions then? More about the general circumstance of the match rather than it's games?
It is true what they say though, real life is stranger than fiction.