Acknowledged!

cathexis wrote on 03/08/26 at 13:55:52:

Is that really true though? Off the top of my head I can think of three books that are mainly on Fischer's play / style:

Agur: Bobby Fischer: His Approach to Chess
Burger: The Chess of Bobby Fischer
Mednis: How to Beat Bobby Fischer (has a special focus on his losses obviously, but it should still provide some insights into his play)

There also the 4th volume of Kasparov's My Great Predecessors series - dubbed Kasparov on Fischer. Mainly on his career and games I think, but the great Garri tends to have plenty of opinions on his predecessors' styles as well.

In the modern classic book Learn from the Legends Marin has a chapter on one Bobby specialty: "Fischer endings" with Bishop vs Knight where the Bishop is stronger. Just one chapter of course, but in this widely praised book I've heard people praise that chapter especially.

I haven't even started looking at Timman's The Unstoppable American yet, but maybe there is some stylistic analysis there too. Timman also has Timman's Titans with a chapter on Fischer.
There are also works in book and/or Chessbase format by Donaldson, Hübner and Müller on Fischer's play. (Very likely there are some authors and books I didn't think of too.)

Are you saying there's more stylistic material than the above on the other champions you mention?

I happened to run across information that a new edition of My 60 Memorable Games is due to be released in early April. It's described as a "luxurious new edition for collectors, with foiled cloth binding and an eight-page plate section". The book's publisher was listed as Rizzoli in the description I initially saw. However, the Rizzoli site and Amazon both give Batsford as the publisher. I suspect this new book is an upscale repackaging of Batsford's 2008 edition, which is the subject of this thread. That earlier book had 384 pages, while the new book supposedly has 392 - the difference in the page count seemingly arising from the "eight-page plate section", which presumably presents photos, a feature lacking in earlier editions IIRC.

https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9781849948494/

https://www.amazon.com/My-Memorable-Games-Bobby-Fischer/dp/1849948496/?_encoding...

naughtyknight wrote on 09/08/08 at 18:54:45:


Winter was very restrained compared to Bobby himself.

Well, I hope the do re-print the Batsford/Nunn version.

It was an excellent effort, and in no way deserved the hassle that old curmudgeons like Winter gave it.

At least one good thing comes out of Fischer's demise.

Viceroy wrote on 09/06/08 at 16:32:54:


eh?

Bugger, just last week I shelled out for Soltis' Bobby Fischer: Rediscovered because the original My 60 Memorable Games was too hard to come by.

Now I'll just have to get both