Frank Brady knew Fischer well as a young man and has now written this biography with sympathy and skill.
Sunday Business Post
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Oldie
Well-researched.
Mail on Sunday
A heartbreaking story of failed hopes and torment.
Catholic Herald
Tells the full and fair story of Fischer's astonishing rise and heartbreaking fall...Brady is the perfect biographer for Bobby Fischer.
Christopher Chabris, author of The Invisible Gorilla The definitive portrait of the greatest- and most disturbed-chess genius of all time.
Paul Hoffman, author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Rich in detail and insight...I consider this book essential reading in the effort to understand Bobby Fischer and his place in our world.
David Shenk, author of The Genius in All of Us. The Mozart of the chessboard is inseparable from the monster of paranoid egotism in this fascinating biography. Brady, founding publisher of Chess Life magazine and a friend of Fischer, gives a richly detailed account of the impoverished Brooklyn wunderkind's sensational opening
he was history's first 15-year-old grandmaster
and the 1972 match with Boris Spassky, in which Fischer captivated the world with his brilliant play and towering tantrums. Brady's chronicle of Fischer's graceless endgame is just as engrossing, as the chess superstar sinks into poverty after rejecting million-dollar matches; flirts with cults; and becomes, though himself Jewish, a raving anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist.... Brady gives us a vivid, tragic narrative of a life that became a chess game.
Publishing News (Starred review)
Well-researched and enjoyable.
Jewish Chronicle
(An) engaging account.
Sunday Telegraph
A superb storyteller.
Literary Review
Frank Brady's superlative Endgame is a biography more than worthy of its charismatic subject ...the second half of his life is one of the saddest stories, even as this is one the year's best biographies.
Washington Post
A rapt, intimate book... Fascinating.
New York Times
Fascinating.
The Times