Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

This is not a new book and it is one that I read... a long time ago in a galaxy far far away....

Published in 1972 after RJF won the World Championship.  I was a young 11 year old who was captivated by Fischer's victory and had joined the chess club at school to learn to play & have fun.  I just recently purchased a new paperback edition of this book in my local book seller's store.

I am like most average chess players enjoying a game online and taking the lessons offered, and working puzzles.  Fischer hated to lose, or draw but would do subtle things to unnerve his opponents.  I'm no Bobby Fischer, however, I am returning to the fundamentals of chess play like any Golfer who works on fundamentals of his or her swing.

In Fischer Teaches Chess, I noticed that the publication I just purchased had pages upside down and backwards which makes reading somewhat difficult to follow... (or was this Bobby's Idea? Quite as eccentric as he was!)  Quite possibly a publishing error, and I may return the book  .   Or was this his Co-Author's idea, Margulies & Mosenfelder who's PHD's  (piled hire & deeper) in education decided to just mess with people's heads for a laugh?!

This was most likely the first chess book I ever read from cover to cover and will do so again.  My question to those of you here who have the book on the shelf, take a look and see if the pages are upside down & backwards where your reading only the right hand pages?  (At first glance it freaks you out!)

I read it in the 90's. it was upside down! It's like a record when you finish one side you flip it over and listen ...ahem... I mean read the other side.

Yep, half of it is upside down.

I also have the PC DOS version. Thankfully, it doesn't flip the monitor display halfway through the program...

I am currently "reading" this book and greatly enjoying it. The methodical and applied approach is fantastic. Unfortunately I'm almost done and want more! Any suggestions for a book that has a similar style but is slightly more advanced? Thanks.

Here are some reading possibilities that I often mention:

Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf

http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm

Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486273024.html

Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1948)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess...a book review....

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/bobby-fischer-teaches-chessa-book-review

I appreciate all the suggestion and RussBell's blog post is fantastic (https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond), but I still haven't found any books that use the teaching approach used in Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. The ones I've aquired based on these recommendations are great, but they have a lot of text that explains the tactic, sometimes followed with some problems or quizzes. The Fischer book is 90% problems that slowly increase in difficulty while all following the same concept/theme. I found this much more helpful because I tend to understand the tactic if it's explained to me, but the Fischer book developed my ability to actually see tactical opportunities in games I am playing. 

Doing tactics puzzles is great on chess.com, but scattered, the Fischer book was much more educational. 

Are there any other chess books that use this "90% problem" with slowly increasing difficulty approach?

Thanks!

Brian

I think that book is overrated. At least it is not very good for beginners IMO.

For better or for worse, I do not think that there is much in the way of similar follow-up material.