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Title: Bobby Fischer Rediscovered by Andy Soltis ISBN: 0-7134-8846-8 Publisher: B.T. Batsford Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worthwhile collection of Fischer games
Comment: GM Andy Soltis is pretty good on game collections mixed with history, and this is no exception. There are some up-to-date insights on many of the famous games as well as some lesser-known gems.
The annotations aren't especially deep, but they don't bog down in masses of variations either. Soltis also points out certain "themes" in Fischer's play, e.g. "you've gotta give squares to take squares".
Rating: 1
Summary: I want the truth! :)
Comment: I see that this book gets 5 stars. I have read through this book briefly and must say that I want to like this book - I really do, but from the Fischer Interviews found at bobbyfischer.net I must say that I can't trust it's content. Bobby Fischer can't stand Andy Soltis, so why would he write a book about him? Maybe just to make money off of Fischer's good name.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bobby Fischer ... RE-discovered?
Comment: It has been over 35 years since Fischer published his "60 Memorable Games," ... not counting Nunn's travesty ... or other poor attempts to revise it. And there has not been a single really good - NEW - book on Fischer in over 15 years! (Most of the better books on Fischer are unfortunately OUT OF PRINT - and nearly impossible to obtain.)
The general rumor {in advance} was that Soltis was going to analyze all the same games that Fischer did in his Magnum Opus, and then add 40 more to round things off to an even 100. The first five games in the Fischer book are: vs. Sherwin, (N.J. Open, 1957); vs. Larsen, (Portoroz IZ, 1958); vs. Petrosian, (same tourn); vs. Pilnik, (Mar del Plata, 1959); and vs. Rossetto. (Also Mar del Plata, '59.) The first 5 games in the Soltis book are vs. D. Byrne, (Rosenwald, NY 1956 - The "Game of The Century."); Di Camillo, (NY, 1956); vs. Bernstein, (U.S. Champ, NY; 1957-58); vs. Sherwin, (same); and then the Fischer - Larsen game. So it is obvious this is NOT just Soltis's turn at re-doing the Fischer book.
First, Soltis is a well-known chess-player and columnist. He has written many chess books. He has an outstanding reputation in the chess community. My students tell me that he is one of the most accessible and easy to understand authors around today. (The Reinfeld or Chernev of modern times.)
The book is thoughtfully crafted; the annotations are (mostly) precise. There are 100 games here that were chosen for their content, and then they were thoroughly annotated. (There are many games the average chess fan will not have seen before.) NO fan of Bobby Fischer (or Soltis) should miss this book. Any aspiring student will certainly learn a lot about the game by a very careful study of the material that is presented here. And there is quite a bit of thoughtful and new biographical material presented here by Soltis.
Having said that, I must vent my frustrations about the things that I saw that I did not like. Soltis definitely uses TOO MANY question marks ... often he uses a sledge hammer when a lighter tool would have sufficed. (The "Modern School" of annotating.) Many times, the question marks only raise issues that the author does not even bother to explain. (This can be very frustrating to the student who wants to know why the move was bad.) And how can we measure games that were played nearly 50 years ago by the standards of today's modern opening theory? (I also don't think Soltis uses a computer to analyze chess games.)
Soltis also has not spent the time on some of the games that he could. If anyone is curious, see the game Fischer - Portisch, Stockholm Interzonal, 1962. (Game # 28, page # 86.) I think this is one of Fischer's best games, and one of the greatest R+P endings ever played!! (I have been saying this for close to 25 years. A curious person could use any search engine and find my annotations of this game on the Internet.) Soltis comes close to butchering this classic contest.
But all hair-splitting aside, this is a very good book about one of the greatest players who ever lived. Just about ANY aspiring chess student will want to add this book to his library. Any student who gets this book ... and applies himself or herself ... will definitely learn (and enjoy!) a great deal about the Royal Game we all love.
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Title: Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2 by Garry Kasparov ISBN: 185744342X Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 by Garry Kasparov ISBN: 1857443306 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Bobby Fischer Goes to War : How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time by David Edmonds, John Eidinow ISBN: 0060510242 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Chess Strategy in Action by John Watson ISBN: 1901983692 Publisher: Gambit Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Pal Benko: My Life, Games, and Compositions by Pal Benko, Jeremy Silman, John Watson ISBN: 1890085081 Publisher: Siles Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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