Searching For Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

by Fred Waitzkin (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.40

  Waitzkin tells the story of three years he spent with his son, Josh, a chess prodigy. From the moment six-year-old Josh first sits at a board until he wins the National Championship, the father-son team meets an eccentric network of people while they search the myth of Bobby Fischer.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  Along with millions of other Americans, Fred Waitzkin was smitten by chess during the historic Fisher-Spassky championship match in 1972. Inspired by Bobby Fischer's charisma, he began to study the game, but quickly gave it up when he discovered he had little talent for it. His interest was revived a decade later when his young son began coaxing him to play and, to the author's astonishment, was beating him. This is the story of three years in the lives of father and son, from the moment when Josh first sits at a board at the age of six until he wins the national primary championship three years later.