Endgame by Frank Brady

Bobby Fischer was possibly the greatest chess player who ever lived.  Unfortunately, he was also as mad as a hatter. Endgame tells the story of Bobby Fischer from the moment he is a small child with a cheap department store chess set until he is a frozen corpse in Iceland being dug up for a DNA test.  In between, he becomes an International Grandmaster, an obsessed religious fanatic, a diehard anti-Semite, anti-American, and all around world class asshole. I had heard of Bobby Fischer, but my main memories of him were as a slightly mad looking fellow with a large…

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