Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves (Fireside Chess Library)

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A collection of the most brilliant, ingenious, and outrageous chess moves ever made by legendary grandmaster Bobby Fischer—from America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit.Discover 101 chess moves—each one that either forced checkmate or led to an overwhelmingly superior position—from among all of Bobby Fischer’s recorded games, most of which were played in tournament or match situations. This easy-to-use, interactive guide was designed by chess teacher extraordinaire and National Chess Master Bruce Pandolfini. Includes diagrams, information on setting and opponent, helpful descriptive hints, incisive analysis, and more. Now you can venture into the mind of a champion, enhanced by Pandolfini’s informative presentation and enlightened by biographical details on Fischer himself. Review: Best book - Every move is perfect Review: Simple proof of a Genius --- Flip it open, looks easy. Okay, try all 100 ! - This book is kept very simple, 100 pages, each page has one diagram. Most of the positions are in the late middle game. I gave up on trying to outguess all the winning moves by Fischer. (I can guess at it, it might take four minutes or more, each one has a unexpected twist.) Fischer's style was difficult, wide open, and bam !! For any player to be consistent at winning those open positions, a tremendous ability and dedication is needed. Great work by Pandolfini, to keep it simple, to let the student or curious reader see for themselves Fischer's intense style. The book gives the moves for each game in an appendix, no notes. (I wanted to see how the endgame turned out, last game, but the wrong game was listed.) Anyway, it is a great book to study Fischer's tactics with those unexpected twists. The next step is to develop independent thinking after learning an opening repertoire -- 1.e4 King's Indian Attack for White (KIA), and when Black, try Attack with the French by Simon Williams (against 1. e4) and the King's Indian Defense (KID) against 1. d4 or 1. c4. Then, Michael Stean's Simple Chess is excellent to learn expert strategy. If instead of the KIA for White (1.e4), there is the Colle system (1.d4, 2.c3). It leads to closed games, so try awesome in concepts and specifics ---- Edmar Mednis' Strategic Chess in Closed Games. It's awesome for the instruction to build independent thinking. Robert Fischer had a wide open style, a style that takes a lot of time and dedication. When young he often relied on the KIA as White, and always KID as Black, also the Sicilian (before It became intensely studied out to 15 moves). Later, Kasparov saw tactical possibilities in the 1.d4 opening. (It's why I mentioned Mednis! Also, Muller's expert 222 d4 Traps!) For improving players, consider two or three examples of each opening in tactical Chernev's Winning Chess Traps, 12-move games often difficult, in both 1.e4 and 1.d4. These can fit together with the middle game tactics shown by Pandolfini's excellent book on Fischer. Fischer wrote his own book, My 60 Memorable Games, it is very advanced. I mentioned his repertoire but, instead of Fischer's choice of Sicilian, try the French by Williams, it's step-by-step.