- Paperback
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (October 1972)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671214837
- ISBN-13: 978-0671214838
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,592,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant,
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This review is from: My 60 Memorable Games, Selected and Fully Annotated. (Paperback)
Bobby Fischer is without question a chess genius.As a person, Fischer is an enigma. He is a very high genius who as a young man exploded on the chess scene like a supernova. He won the US Chess Championships at the age of 14, an amazing feat by itself but only the beginning. He is best known for his winning the World Championship from Boris Spassky in the 1970's. While many know this they do not know how amazing that feat really was. International Chess is not the easiest forum to play in. In the 1970's and before it was dominated by the Russians. That is still true to some extent today, but not like it was back in the 1970's. Winning Chess tournaments where there were so many Russians involved was difficult especially because to put it nicely, the Russians would work as a team to help their designated leaders win. To put it not so nicely, they would help each other so that they would create the result that they wanted. Agreed upon draws after only a few moves were common. Collaboration on adjourned games was common. Bobby Fischer's accomplishment in winning the world championship in this setting is a testament to his brilliance and his perseverance. Bobby played to win .... always! A planned draw just wasn't in his nature. As an individual, Bobby Fischer beat them on his own, and he has never really been given the credit he deserved. That having been said, Bobby Fischer has always been something of a recluse and for that reason the world has been robbed of his genius as he has dropped from the scene and arisen only occasionally to world notice. He replayed Spassky and ran afoul of US immigration and has had legal problems since then. Recently he turned up in Japan and last I heard was granted citizenship and asylum in Iceland, where ironically he originally played Spassky back in the 70's. All this is to say that this book represents Fischer's brilliance and unfortunately there are few other sources in which to find it in terms of his analysis and commentary. Other reviews refer to the reprints which have altered the original and so the discerning buyer should make sure he is getting an original. Unfortunately, they usually are not cheap. It is truly a gem and valuable for it's insight into chess as well as the rarity of its existence and being hard to find. Say what you will about Fischer's social qualities, there has never been his match in Chess, and when you understand what he accomplished, how passionate he was (and is) about Chess and how difficult his accomplishments were, you have to just give him a tremendous amount of credit. 5 stars bart breen
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A Classic book with great analysis for the advanced player,
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This review is from: My 60 Memorable Games, Selected and Fully Annotated. (Paperback)
As a 2405 Internationally rated player and full time professional chess trainer I highly recommend this classic work to the serious advanced chess student. It was not written for lower rated players as Fischer, being perhaps the strongest player that ever lived, has no concept of providing instruction to beginners. However, this is not a drawback to this book at all if you are a stong player. The overall analysis is accurate with a limited number of errors (see the book "Unbeatable Chess Lessons For Juniors" for additional improvements in the analysis of his games versus Shocron and Bryne).Indeed a classic - recommended for players rated over 1600.
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A suppressed masterpiece.,
By tepi "tepi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My 60 Memorable Games, Selected and Fully Annotated. (Paperback)
Readers should be aware that there have been several editions of this book. In its original form, in descriptive notation and with Fischer's own annotations, it was very well received indeed, earning high praise from many top players and chess writers. It was also voted the best chess book in any category by the readers of the British Chess Magazine, and I'm sure by others. Unfortunately, when it was later re-edited and issued in an algebraic edition, something happened to Fischer's original annotations. The editors apparently 'revised' them, and the effect was - as Fischer vehemently complained in a recent radio interview - to make him look like "a patzer." He claims that the new annotations are riddled with errors and could never have come from his hand. Since 'My 60 Memorable Games' is as about important to students of chess as Shakespeare's plays are to students of literature, it would be nice to be able to tell readers to avoid the mutilated algebraic edition and to make sure they get a reprint of the earlier and untampered-with edition of the book. Unhappily neither edition appears to be available. Both have been allowed to go out of print and remain out of print. One is left wondering just who is keeping this masterpiece off the market. And why...? 28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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My 60 Memorable Games,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My 60 Memorable Games, Selected and Fully Annotated. (Paperback)
The original edition of Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games is a masterpiece and it has been mutilated in the algebraic version. There are thousands upon thousands of changes. There are misspellings and grammatical errors, not to mention changes in analysis. For instance, at the end of game 48 Fischer wrote "with mate to follow shortly" and in the new edition it says "with mate in a few moves" even though there isn't a forced mate in a few moves. They also changed the spelling of "gell" to "jell." Why would they change Fischer's original analysis and misspell words in the new edition? There's also a part of a sentence changed from "White has" to "White's has" which is a grammatical error. The only reason I can think of for why they changed his analysis and grammar is to make him look stupid. In addition, Bobby Fischer doesn't receive any money for the new edition and it is also in complete violation of his contract. Get the original if you can find it but don't get the new edition, unless you want to compare the two and see how Fischer's book has been butchered.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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The best chess book every published.,
By John Kato - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My 60 Memorable Games, Selected and Fully Annotated. (Paperback)
This is the one classic that is as relevant in the present as it was when it was written. Although the opennings might be a little dated, this is the most scrutinized book ever published. For over twenty five years, in Chess Life and Review players thinking they m,ight have caught the great Bobby Fischer in an error in analysis. Fischer quickly owned up to three errors. Two were typo and a third was a genuine error. It was not until 1978 that a 13 year old prodigy named Garry Weinstein (who later changed his last name to Kasparov) found a mistake in the game he had with Botvinnik; making it four mistakes.This is the book most (not just the most frequent stated) chess book reviewers and chess masters would take to a desert island if they could take only one book. Despite the book's age, this book is still very relevant as to how to handle a middle game from an openning and converting a win from a slight advantage. This book is not just a classic but the definitive example of chess scholarship. If you have a library and have any pride in it, you have to have this book. If there ever was a must have, it is this book. |
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