BOBBY FISCHER'S OUTRAGEOUS CHESS MOVES : A STUDY OF 101 OUTRAGEOUS MOVES BY THE GREATEST CHESS CHAMPION OF ALL TIME

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Summary: How good was Bobby Fischer?
Review: This is an Average simple book basically... He has a collection of 101 of moves Fischer makes in games... Milking the Fischer name for some money like so many others... He is the guy that yells Young Fischer in the Searching for Bobby Fischer movie if you wonder... I do like that he has a rating for like how hard the move is to find... Also like he does have the complete games listed in the end... So least you can play out the games and that is pretty cool... The price of the book is fair, still don't expect to learn anything... Really more of a book you get to enjoy than learn from... So if this book sounds interesting it is not a bad toss on book I guess... I have a copy but I never look at it and really have no idea where it is... So Im not sure how high I would rate the reread value...

Rating:
Summary: Average Simple Book...
Review: This is an Average simple book basically... He has a collection of 101 of moves Fischer makes in games... Milking the Fischer name for some money like so many others... He is the guy that yells Young Fischer in the Searching for Bobby Fischer movie if you wonder... I do like that he has a rating for like how hard the move is to find... Also like he does have the complete games listed in the end... So least you can play out the games and that is pretty cool... The price of the book is fair, still don't expect to learn anything... Really more of a book you get to enjoy than learn from... So if this book sounds interesting it is not a bad toss on book I guess... I have a copy but I never look at it and really have no idea where it is... So Im not sure how high I would rate the reread value...

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Summary: let's make money from Fischer's name and games...
Review: Three stars are for this book:
1) Good selection of games and clear diagrams.
2) Better analysis than those Schiller's books, (even the book is 15 years olds, I got '85 edition.)
3) Provide the complete games at the end of the book so we can see the turning points of the games. (Even so, if we want a complete collection of Fischer's games, Lou Hays' book is better, and then we would miss out the "expert" analysis, right? So this book is a good bridging stone.)
Most of Fischer's games in particular, and current and ex-champions and GMs in general, have some defining turn-points; especially when the players steer the games to the tactical aspects. Often than not, they prefer to keep the game in positional struggles, so the more patient and skillful players usually come out victorious after many long deep-thought moves. We don't see much "outrageous" moves in their (GM) games. However, when the combinations present, surely they grasp them and start the fireworks. That is what Pandolfini again wrote the book "One-Move Chess by the Champions". Fischer is a fearless attacker; therefore most of his games contain those "Outrageous" moves. Any 40-50 of Fischer's winning games from Hays' book can make some "Awesome Games of the Ultimate Chess Champion", or the like. With that abundance of impressive games, Fischer chose to write "My 60 Memorable Games", and he included some of his "memorable" losses too!!!
As we see, most books written about Fischer's games will have at least 1/3 of his games in "60 Memorable Games" (other 2/3 is to try avoid 'copycats'), and as we all know Fischer's analysis is always more superior.
Now, let's make some money, by buying Hays' book and using Fritz 8 (another small investment) to analyze Fischer's games. After that, with some good story-telling co-writers, we can produce "60 Winter Days in '64 U.S. Championship the Ultimate Chess Champion Created the Most Classical Game Record in the Most Prestigious Event of All Times", or something similar.


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Summary: One of best puzzle books ever published
Review: Where else can you get 101 of Bobby Fischer's most outrageous amazing moves in puzzle book format. This book and John Nunn's puzzle book are the two best puzzle books currently available. Pandolfini has also written a great match game book, Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, and these two books are the best materials he has produced, as I find his instructional materials way to easy and condescending to any player of decent strength. Come on Bruce.

Rating:
Summary: One of best puzzle books ever published
Review: Where else can you get 101 of Bobby Fischer's most outrageous amazing moves in puzzle book format. This book and John Nunn's puzzle book are the two best puzzle books currently available. Pandolfini has also written a great match game book, Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, and these two books are the best materials he has produced, as I find his instructional materials way to easy and condescending to any player of decent strength. Come on Bruce.