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LXOLABFCH

Bobby Fischer Comes Home

144 pages, paperback, New in Chess, 1. edition 2012

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Helgi Olafsson was fifteen years old when in 1972 Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky to become World Chess Champion. Breathlessly, young Helgi followed the Match of the Century and even attended a number of games in Reykjavik's Laugardalshöll.
Little could Olafsson suspect then that 33 years on, having become a chess grandmaster himself, he would be a member of the committee that successfully worked to free Fischer from a Japanese detention centre.
On March 24, 2005, Bobby Fischer returned to the country where he had achieved his greatest triumph. He was never to leave again until his tragic death onJanuary, 2008.
Olafsson first met his childhood hero shortly after his return. In the following years, the two spent countless hours together. They made trips, went to restaurants, watched movies, played games, spoke on the phone almost every day, had fun and quarrelled.
Bobby Fischer Comes Home tells the story of a unique friendship and paints an intimate and revealing picture of the last years of the man who many see as the greatest chess player that ever lived.
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EAN 9789056913816
Weight 250 g
Manufacturer New in Chess
Width 14.4 cm
Height 21.8 cm
Medium Book
Year of Publication 2012
Author Helgi Olafsson
Language English
Edition 1
ISBN-13 978-90-569-1381-6
Pages 144
Binding paperback
007 A happy part of his life
009 Chapter One
017 Chapter Two
024 Chapter Three
028 Chapter Four
035 Chapter Five
043 Chapter Six
062 Chapter Seven
069 Chapter Eight
075 Chapter Nine
080 Chapter Ten
087 Chapter Eleven
093 Chapter Twelve
102 Chapter Thirteen
107 Chapter Fourteen
116 Chapter Fifteen
129 Chapter Sixteen
140 Epilogue
143 Acknowledgements
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