Bobby Fischer Goes to War How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine

Name: Bobby Fischer Goes to War How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
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ISBN: 9780060510251

ISBN-10: 0060510250

ISBN-13: 9780060510251

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Authors: David Edmonds, John Eidinow

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In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film. Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential cold war clash between a lone American star and the Soviet…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English