Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine - David Edmonds - Livros - HarperCollins - 9780060510251 - 1 de março de 2005
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine

David Edmonds

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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine

In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky, and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film. Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential cold war clash between a lone American star and the Soviet chess machine. A mesmerizing narrative of brilliance and triumph, hubris and despair, Bobby Fischer Goes to War is a biting deconstruction of the Bobby Fischer myth, a nuanced study on the art of brinkmanship, and a revelatory cold war tragicomedy.

This P. S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.


384 pages

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 1 de março de 2005
ISBN13 9780060510251
Editoras HarperCollins
Páginas 384
Dimensões 135 × 203 × 203 mm   ·   327 g
Idioma English  

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