Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time by David Edmonds

Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time

David Edmonds with John Eidinow

368 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced

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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...

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