Bobby Fischer

Masterpieces of Tactics and Strategy from American Chess Legend Bobby Fischer

Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Washington Square in New York City, he quickly makes friends with a hustler named Vinnie who teaches him speed chess. Josh's parents hire a renowned chess coach, Bruce, who teaches Josh the usefulness of measured planning. Along the way Josh becomes tired of Bruce's system and chess in general and purposely throws a match, leaving the prospects of winning a national championship in serious jeopardy.

This is a book in Descriptive Chess Notation of great importance not only because of the question it addresses, but because of who asks and then answers that question. Dr. Max Euwe, who was world chess champion from 1935 to 1937, compares and contrasts Bobby Fischer with the three greatest players before him, world champions Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine.

Bobby Fischer l’eroe della Guerra fredda, l’alfiere bianco degli Stati Uniti, primo e unico americano a vincere il campionato del mondo contro i formidabili, arciodiati sovietici. Bobby Fischer la pedina, Bobby Fischer la regina. Poi Bobby Fischer re sotto scacco, in fuga da tutti dopo il trionfo, un’anima persa nello stallo fin troppo simbolico del suo eremo di Reykjavík. Infine, Bobby Fischer re nero, furioso e autolesionista, antiamericano pur essendo americano, antisemita pur essendo ebreo, in rotta con il suo paese al punto da perderne prima l’amore e poi la cittadinanza.In questo romanzo di spettri in cui ogni evento è reale, Vittorio Giacopini racconta una vicenda che sembra infilarsi in ogni istante nell’enigma, nella fenditura invisibile tra l’Est e l’Ovest, tra il male e il bene, tra la casella bianca e la casella nera..