Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin

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Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin

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Zusammenfassung

This account of the eccentric world of international chess and the obsession of a father for the game, expressed through his son, juxtaposes Manhattan's seedy chess parlours with the adulation awarded to chess players by the Russian establishment.

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Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin

This story reveals much about the obsessiveness involved in the international game of chess. Bobby Fischer and his father were drawn into the bizarre world of Manhattan's seedy chess parlours and Park Square in Washington where chess fanatics sleep rough and hustle for two-dollar games. By contrast, Soviet chess players are feted like filmstars and the author unveils the anti-Semitism, political blackmail and drug-taking behind the Soviet chess establishment.

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SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780370313177
ISBN 10 0370313178
Titel Searching for Bobby Fischer
Autor Fred Waitzkin
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr 1989-03-01
Seitenanzahl 256
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