Bobby Fischer Books

Hi Folks

I need some guidance.

What do you consider the best books written by Bobby Fischer, written about Bobby Fischer and the best books written about the 1972 World Chess Championship Match?

Thank you in advance

My 60 Memorable Games

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708234047/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review684.pdf

Checkmate: Bobby Fischer's Boys' Life Columns

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/3708.pdf

Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion by Karsten Müller

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708091151/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review708.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/2741.pdf

Bobby Fischer: From Chess Genius to Legend by various

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093235/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review388.pdf

Bobby Fischer Comes Home by Helgi Olafsson

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708091028/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review844.pdf

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Bobby-Fischer-Comes-Home-80p3794.htm

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Bobby-Fischer-Comes-Home-80p3704.htm

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Bobby-Fischer-Comes-Home-80p3708.htm

Bobby Fischer Rediscovered by Andrew Soltis

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094239/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review403.pdf

Bobby Fischer, the Wandering King by Hans Böhm & Kees Jongkind

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233207/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review480.pdf

Chess Exam: Matches Against Chess Legends, You vs. Bobby Fischer by Igor Khmelnitsky

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708111904/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review719.pdf

The Unknown Bobby Fischer by John Donaldson & Eric Tangborn

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105811/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/unknownfischer.txt

Russians versus Fischer (2d ed.) by Dmitry Plisetsky & Sergey Voronkov

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105931/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review505.pdf

Endgame by Frank Brady

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103430/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review811.pdf

Fischer: Move by Move

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7548.pdf

Four Part Fischer Opus

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Four-Part-Fischer-Opus-80p3920.htm

Bobby Fischer for Beginners

Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds & John Eidinow

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708111742/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review431.pdf

Fischer World Champion! (3rd. ed.) by Max Euwe & Jan Timman

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103547/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review344.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708112045/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review690.pdf

Bobby Fischer’s Conquest of the World Chess Championship

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Bobby-Fischers-Conquest-of-the-World-Chess-Championship-80p3549.htm

• Garry Kasparov on Fischer: Garry Kasparov On My Great Predecessors, Part 4 by Garry Kasparov
• Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy by Frank Brady
• Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady
• Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine by David Edmonds

• Bobby Fischer: Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion by Lou Hays

lots of Bobby Fischer books...

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=bobby+fischer&sprefix=bobby+fischer%2Cstripbooks%2C199&crid=3QK5MFYY32YZX

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708112445/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review459.pdf

I liked “Bobby Fisher Goes to War” by David Edmonds and John Eidinow. You can listen to the audiobook book for free with Hoopla.

Also of possible interest, particularly from a historical perspective, is "Extreme Chess: World Championships 1935-1937-1972" by C.J.S.Purdy (who in 1953 became the first World Correspondence Chess Champion) which annotates the complete games of three world championship matches, including Fischer-Spassky 1972.  As well the book contains player's bios and commentary and the stories behind the games, and the chess era of the time...a very interesting book for those interested in these players and matches.  In fact Purdy contends that "For accuracy combined with entertainment, the [1937] match was probably the best ever played, the 1935 match coming a good second."

The annotated matches:

Alekhine-Euwe 1 - 1935

Alekhine-Euwe 2 - 1937

Fischer-Spassky - 1972

https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-CHESS-World-Championships-1935/dp/0938650815/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1527589424&sr=1-2&keywords=extreme+chess

Thanks for the ideas. I will follow up on a few.

If I remember correctly, the late GM Evans once expressed his approval of that book.

An interesting article on Bobby Fischer by GM Larry Evans.  Evans knew Fischer as well as anyone, as for a time he was Fischer's second...

https://www.chess.com/blog/ttiot/the-bobby-fischer-that-we-loved