My Great Predecessors 4 Fischer

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My Great Predecessors 4 Fischer is rereleased in paperback and hardcover, enhanced in every way, with high-quality print, modern fonts and an upgraded visual style.

Part IV tells the story of legendary World Champion, Robert James Fischer (1972–1975). The American burst onto the international stage in the late 1950s,

broke the Soviet chess hegemony, before finally defeating Spassky in Reykjavik in the «Match of the Century.»

Winner of the ECF Book of the Year 2005

My Great Predecessors 4 Fischer

Garry Kasparov, the 13th World Chess Champion (1985–2000) “is the greatest player who’s ever lived” – Magnus Carlsen

The lives and games of ten chess kings of the past, from Steinitz to Spassky, have already been described, and now it is the turn of the eleventh – the phenomenal Fischer,

who in the early 1970s succeeded on his own in smashing the Soviet chess machine. Before him, unsuccessful attempts had been made to do this by other bright stars from the West –

Reshevsky, Najdorf, Larsen… Narrative logic – or perhaps Caissa herself – suggested the solution of devoting an individual volume to all these outstanding players.

It stands to reason that Fischer did not emerge out of nothing. Not without reason was he called the best pupil of the Soviet Chess School, the fl ourishing of which led to the rapid

development of the game in the mid-20th century, but with even more foundation he can be regarded as the successor to the great traditions of American chess,

stemming from the legendary Morphy.

Garry Kasparov

Over the period of more than a hundred years separating their world triumphs, an almost continuous rise in the popularity of chess in America has been observed.

It was here that Steinitz accomplished his unparalleled feats, playing fi ve matches for the world championship between 1886 and 1894, and more important –

expounding in his International Chess Magazine (1885-91) and his fundamental work Modern Chess Instructor (1889) the teachings of the new, positional school.

My Great Predecessors 4 Fischer

At the end of the 19th century this wave swept Pillsbury towards the top, followed in the early 20th century by Marshall. America became a serious chess centre and

it was no accident that Lasker lived here for several years, publishing his famous Lasker’s Chess Magazine (1904-09), just as it was no accident that the genius Capablanca

appeared and grew up here, settling for a long time in New York. While the First World War was raging in Europe, in America tournament life continued, and imperceptibly,

little-by-little, the foundation for a new breakthrough was laid.

In the 1920s this process was accelerated by the sensational exhibitions of the child prodigy Sammy Reshevsky, a tour by Alekhine, the challenger to the chess.

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