Books by and about Bobby Fischer

There is an unusual site on the www.

The URL is:

www.scribd.com

You need to join and confirm your e-mail address.Then type Bobby Fischer into the search option and you will find the most extraordinary array of downloadable chess books about Fischer.The collection is enormous. I am ahead of you:I am busy reading Emmanuel Lasker's "Common Sense in Chess".

First time I see this website. Very interesting... I am reading "My 60 Memorable Games" right now, but isn't this against copyright? Although I see their website has been working for quiet some time now. Thanks for the share William.

I can't really comment on US copyright law but the UK position I know a little of.Publishers see the whole area of property rights and the www as developing and as yet undefined.Very few artists will remove their materials from youtube for example because they believe that there is commercial advantage in the developing usage.The scribd site is unusual because many world famous publishers actually use it.Maran,the leading educational graphics publisher,upload their works but modify the downloading mechanism.

       If you really want to understand the dimension of uncertainty then review the whole Manga comic arena.Copyists make complete copies of standard comics and are judged by how close their work is to the original but Japanese intellectual property lawyers are not involved at all.

Have a look at my photo submission about Lessig - the USA's leading expert in this field

http://www.chess.com/photos/view_album/WilliamDupree/the-law-and-the-www

Lessig's free book is a fabulous read.

 Ya think he would have been enititled to the protections of the very Gov't he spat on and denounced..??  I would think not....

I stumbled upon this forum while looking for Bobby Fischer-related books. While I couldn't find any written by Fisher himself, is there any that he actually wrote? Or if he didn't write any, suggest the best books to study him and his tactics.

My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer .

Written by the phenomenon himself (the only one, as far as I know).. Caution to lower rated players: It's an advanced book.

bobby fisher teaches chess has often been recommended for kids and beginners but was it written by bob or not we may never know.

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess...a book review...(a beginner's book)...

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

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess....see the section 'Authorship'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer_Teaches_Chess

Bobby Fischer bibliograpy (books)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Bobby_Fischer

Thanks for sharing this and mentioning the links. The text "Fischer's own work includes My 60 Memorable Games, a well-regarded analysis of his own games, and (with co-authors) Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, a popular primer intended for absolute beginners." says it all.

from the wikipedia on the book a grandmaster used it to learn chess "Grandmaster Maurice Ashley has said that Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess was his first chess book" there can be a whole lot more grandmasters that learned from the book

Fischer was a Chessplayer's Chessplayer and still has claims to be, all things considered, the best ever.

"Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" is a good very first chess book for someone who knows nothing or very little about chess. It was my first chess book as well. In fact, consider that every chess player, including GM's, knew nothing about chess before they learned anything about the game.

it was written by expert teachers after all. wikipedia quotes bobby about his teacher

"Mr. Nigro was possibly not the best player in the world, but he was a very good teacher." – Bobby Fischer

can we vice versa say

"Mr. Fisher was possibly not the best teacher in the world, but he was a very good player"

Just out of curiosity, I tried searching for where Bobby Fischer learned chess from. This is what I got.
"he began learning chess at the age of 6 after his older sister Joan bought him a chess set. He continued to hone his skills as a youngster at the Brooklyn Chess Club and Manhattan Chess Club"

Frank Brady's biography gives more details, but that is gist.

is it fair to say bobbi learned chess from club play and there is no instruction that can be as good as that for talented kids?

Brady's book describes Bobby doing intense self-study from books and magazines. He was completely obsessed with the game foregoing everything else unless forced.

Beware of drawing conclusions that the way Bobby learned is best in general. He was extraordinary. And obviously, there are also computer tools now that weren't available then.

That's a fact @mjeman. Had been there such tools in the past, there would have been many more renowned chess players today!

Back on topic. "Checkmate: Bobby Fischer's Boys' Life Columns" is another book with his byline. In addition to the column texts, the editor includes information about Bobby's tournament appearances between the magazines issues explaining the long periods without a column. The columns are from the 1960's and feature tutorials in algebraic notation, which seems early for English language publications.