Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion

Like someone else thankfully pointed out, it doesn't bring all of Fischer's games, but most, if not all, his serious ones. The annotations are top-notch. I can't stress this enough. I saw someone complaining about them, and they're truly great.Pros:- Largest annotated collection of Fischer's games, and the annotations are modern, so no nonsense there, at least for our present day.- Good pictures.- Beautiful paper quality.- Good size.- Interesting Fischer facts in the introduction.Cons:- Title is misleading, as it doesn't have the complete games of the champion, but more like all of his serious games.

THE BOOK IS VERY REWARDING WITH GAMES GALORE. MY ONLY WISH IS THAT THEY WILL MAKE A SECOND PRINTING IN HARDBACK SO THAT I CAN ADD IT TO MY COLLECTION!

For a number of years I have enjoyed a complete collection of Fischer's games, "Bobby Fischer's Chess Games", edited by Wade and O'Connel. This newer collection of Fischer's games has several improvements over the older book. The games in Muller's book are in Figurine Algebraic notation, are presented in chronological order, have excellent crosstables indicating not only the results between players but the rounds in which they were played. The index of openings have the ECO designations. I have seen complaints about the annotations but there are a ton more included in this volume than the Wade and O'Connel book. I don't know of any other complete record of Fischer's games. I have also found one correction of an error that has been present in at least a couple of volumes of a game that looked like Fischer had overlooked a mate in one because of an incorrect notation, (Hort-Fischer, 1970, move 53...Bb6 rather than the correct 53...Be3. This book is a good quality soft cover edition. There is no hard cover edition listed. Highly recommended!

Mueller has attempted to collect all of the Fischer's games in one volume and annotate them - a formidable task. He has succeeded in the former, but sadly his comments are very sparse. Of course it would be foolish to expect exhausted verbal comments on each game as that would require more than 2000 pages, but in my opinion it would have been better to give detailed annotations to a selected number of games such as those against Byrne brothers, Letelier, Spassky, Tal, Botvinnik - the number of such games not exceeding, may be, one hundred, and then give the annotations of the rest of the games rather sparsely. True, it would have raised the number of pages of the book to above 550 and also correspondingly the price of the book from $30 to $45. But I think chess lovers would have loved the volume even more. Personally my choice for Fischer's collection of games is by, you guessed it, Khalifman and his collaborators. Khalifman and his team is meticulous in annotating and rarely make a mistake. I am aware that Fischer made the claim that he never made a mistake in published analysis - a claim refuted by the great Yuri Averbakh, who went on to correctly insist that analysis can never be perfect. To sum up I have awarded four stars because of the quality of annotations. Mueller is perfectly capable of greatly improving the annotations but practical considerations of publications limited his hand.

This is a great compilation, and contrary to what one reviewer said, the annotations are plentiful enough. I almost did not purchase this because of his comment that he would have preferred much more detailed annotation on a select number of games (maybe 100 instead of the entire set of 735 games). Perhaps he did not intend it (although he only gave the book four stars), but he gave a negative spin to the book which it does not merit. On the contrary, Karsten Mueller has achieved something monumental here with essential annotations on all of the games. It is easy to put a critical game through analysis with a chess engine if a reader desires more. Five stars! Impressive!

This book is beyond great — if you know how to use it properly. Play over each game, covering up the moves, trying to guess the right ones. Then, when you are done, use a chess engine and study it again. Enter the moves and go over each game time and again, from the first to the last. Then you will have comprehensively studied arguably the greatest chess genius ever. Keep in mind Fischer did all this with a narrow opening repertoire and with no computer, unlike Kasparov, et al.The book goes in sequence from when Fischer was young and talented and then, game by game, you not only see his improvement all the way to the world championship, you (and your computer) can teach yourself the same way. Then go on to study each opening and middlegame improvement from 1972 to the present and you will have as much exposure as the next person. Easy to say, so difficult and rewarding to do. Teach this to a child from the time he or she is young and show them this method and they will reach their ultimate potential.

No, I'm not Anthony Saidy, but I am a club player from the Los Angeles area. I grew up inspired by Bobby Fischer. I purchased this text and it has lived up to all it's hype. Well written, several key position diagrams; annotations are concise and thorough. Also, I assume the author checked his lines with the lastest software such as Rybka or Fritz, etc as I've found no errors yet. Other major publications, such "My Great Predecessors" from Kasparov have errors in analysis(so I assume he didn't run all analysis from computers).I ran into IM Anthony Saidy at the American Open in Los Angeles Nov 2009, and asked him about the book. He was very favorable about the text and said "they annotate every one of his games!" IM Saidy was Fischer's peer and has played him about 6 times and he also has played several world champions. He is a gentleman and scholar, so if he looks upon the book favorably, it must be a gem!To Great Chess!

Eine großartige Sammlung der Spiele von Fischer, gut analysiert.

This book is better than Brady's book. It has everything about Bobby Fischer. His meteoric rise, his spiral downwards and his tragic end. His best games and all tournament record.Unfortunately nothing can beat the 'passion' of ' My 60 Memorable Games'. Some can equal it - ' Alekhine's two volume (not the third one) 'My Best Games of Chess'.

J'ai mis trois étoiles à ce livre pour les raisons suivantes :points positifs :-toutes les parties sont commentées et presque toutes accompagnées d'un diagramme, parfois deux (les parties nulles n'ont parfois qu'une seule variante ou un seul commentaire),-quelques parties inédites ne se trouvent pas dans les autres recueils (le plus complet est celui de Hays),-il contient une étude rapide (par Andrew Soltis) des principales contributions théoriques de Fischer dans les ouvertures ("opening survey" de 11 pages) ; pour chaque partie le code ECO est indiqué et le livre dispose d'un index des ouvertures (par nom et code ECO) et d'un index des adversaires,-il contient de nombreuses photos de Fischer que je n'ai pas vues dans un autre livre,points négatifs :-la reliure et la couverture du livre ne sont pas résistantes (il faut manier le livre avec précaution),-le livre ne contient ni les parties exhibition de Fischer (parties simultanées), ni les parties en blitz de Fischer (le livre présente 735 parties contre plus de 1040 pour le livre de Hayes),-certaines tables de tournois sont erronées (notamment la table du tournoi de Bled 1961 mais aussi celle du trophée Rosenwald de 1956)-la date et la ronde où les parties ont été disputées ne sont jamais indiquées : si vous cherchez la quatorzième partie d'un match contre Spassky, ou la partie de la quatorzième ronde d'un tournoi vous serez embêtés,-pour plusieurs tournois de 1955, 1956, 1957 et 1959, dont le trophée Rosenwald 1956 et le tournoi de Zurich 1959, les parties sont données dans l'ordre alphabétique des noms des joueurs et non dans l'ordre chronologique.Pour corriger ces erreurs, il faut acheter soit le livre de Wade et O'Connell (disponible en français), soit le livre de Hays ("Bobby Fischer, Complete Games").

On page 11 of the book it states that Panno arrived after the hour wasup and signed "Resigns". This is incorrect, if he had arrived after the hour he wouldnt have been able to as the game would already have been defaulted! the tournament book makes it clear that Fischer found him earlier and he signed "resigns" before the hour was up!

5 stars says it all for book and delivery