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tvil's review
4.0
I read this book before I watched Pawn Sacrifice, the new biopic about Bobby Fischer. I already knew a lot about him, not only through chess studies, but also from the excellent documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World (which I absolutely recommend for anyone who read this book or watched the biopic).
This biography is a good summary of Fischer’s life, from his childhood to his later years. It’s not much more than that, though. It contains an impressive amount of hitherto unknown (or lesser known) details of his life, but it rarely goes deep enough in his psyche to even attempt to understand the multifaceted man who created so much beauty on the board but so much hate in his mind.
The book glosses over the sixties, though. I wish it fleshed out what Fischer was up to in that decade a bit more; the chapter reads kind of like an action movie montage.
This biography is a good summary of Fischer’s life, from his childhood to his later years. It’s not much more than that, though. It contains an impressive amount of hitherto unknown (or lesser known) details of his life, but it rarely goes deep enough in his psyche to even attempt to understand the multifaceted man who created so much beauty on the board but so much hate in his mind.
The book glosses over the sixties, though. I wish it fleshed out what Fischer was up to in that decade a bit more; the chapter reads kind of like an action movie montage.
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