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The Chess Grandmaster BOBBY FISCHER in 3 Volumes
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The chess grandmaster BOBBY FISCHER in 3 VolumesThe chess grandmaster BOBBY FISCHER in 3 Volumes

If chess is a game for people of character, then Fischer was born to become a chess genius, because it was precisely his character that led him to leave school while still an adolescent and embark on a journey studded with inevitable pitfalls, his only quide and muse the chequered board.
He would go on to rewrite the history books: become the youngest ever grandmaster, achieve boundless success and transcend his own capabilities. He would learn Russian and Serbo-Croat, study and practise chess until he dropped. By the 1960s his mere presence was enough to raise the limits of expectation...
 
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