Bobby Fischer

This is a beautiful book of mostly black and white photos of the young Bobby Fischer. (If you want text, better to buy a book that tells a story about Bobby.) What can be gleaned from these very intimate photos is a very different Bobby the public didn't often see. The photos are exclusively of the young Bobby at the height of his powers, not the reclusive, raving man he would become.

I am a big Bobby Fischer fan my whole life! This book has incredible photos from the era 1970-1972 when Fischer peaked and conquered the chess world with a dominance never equaled to this day. These photos and Harry Benson's article display a side of Fischer most never knew, he was a very fascinating nice person. Great pictures of one of chess's greatest players ever and most dominant we have ever seen in this period 1970-1972. I am rated 2164.

my father admired bobby fischer and played chess too. i ordered this book for him but unfortunately he passed away before i could give it to him.

After a brief delay in receiving the book, it finally arrived. Overall, book is very interesting. It's mainly a "coffee table" book with very little dialogue. Most of the pictures are shot in black and white and have never been seen before. We see Bobby getting ready for matches by boxing, skipping rope, swimming, doing pull ups, lifting a medicine ball and playing ping pong. There's one shot of Bobby holding a Coke cup in one hand and a ping pong paddle in the other giving us the famous "Fischer stare". Very intimidating. Some of the shots are outtakes from the assignment Benson did for the 11-12-71 issue of Life magazine. Oddly, most of the limited color shots are "reversed" which detracts from the picture. (The square in the lower right hand corner of the board should be white, not black. Also, Bobby parts his hair on the left, not the right). I could have also done without the pictures of Bobby in the shower. My favorites are the ones of Bobby at the board with Boris. Bensons point of view is over Boris' right shoulder.Overall, a good book but the lack of color pictures and the sloppiness in printing them reversed prevent this from being a 5 star book.

Some of the best photos ever taken of Fischer.

Great incisive stories on the man, the grandmaster of grandmasters

I am a photographer and a fan of Chess. This was a fun book for me, I loved the behind the scene stories of two very interesting men Benson and Fischer. I don't think this is the best photo book of Benson's work.

Excellent book, very informative!

Dieses Werk ist ein wunderbares Zeitdokument.

fotografias de grande qualidade, um livro com fotos da época do campeonato mundial, com a marca de um grande fotografo. a amazon, me entregou em 4 dias corridos, numa velocidade comparável apenas ao "sedex" com a grande diferença que a entrega foi Prime e totalmente grátis. o livro chegou em excelente estado, acomodado em caixa adequada e com proteções para evitar amassar a capa do livro.

Se trata de un libro que por sus características gustará a los amantes de la fotografía y los entusiastas del ajedrez y su historia. El tamaño es agradable. Está bien encuadernado y la calidad del papel es buena. Tiene poco texto, en inglés, y las fotos están ordenadas cronológicamente en tres momentos de la vida de Robert James Fischer, ajedrecista estadounidense, considerado por muchos el más grande de la historia del ajedrez.La primera colección fue tomada tras derrotar a Tigran Petrosian en Buenos Aires y proclamarse candidato al título mundial de Ajedrez.La segunda parte recoge el entrenamiento en Nueva York preparatorio para la final.Y la tercera y última parte son fotos del conocido como Match del siglo, frente a Boris Spasski en Reikiavik, donde se proclamó Campeón Mundial en 1972.La selección de fotos es muy buena, con algunas combertidas en iconos de la historia.Un buen libro.

Un beau cadeau qui a fait très plaisir à ce fan de Bobby.Un ouvrage de référence à découvrir ...

Purchased this after seeing a documentary about Fischer.Some fantastic photos of Fischer both at the chess-board and away from it. Very little text, but I quite liked this aspect - let the pictures speak for themselves. The book is sort of divided into chapters, which explain a bit about the context of the photos.I love this collection and it often comes off the shelf for browsing. Anyone with an interest in chess, or even photography could appreciate this.