My 60 Memorable Games: The enduring chess classic from a giant of the game

I got this book, primarily to see the killer Rf6 tactical shot against Pal Benko. Back when i first started out, i thought he gave up his rook for nothing, but now I saw what fischer was up to. The f7 pawn is blocked and cannot go to f5, and if the rook is taken, fischer would play e5, with the unstoppable mate on h7 to follow. Unless nakamura proves me wrong, i doubt another American will win the world title again as nakamura threw away a couple draws against Vidit at the candidates in toronto earlier this year, and missed out by half a point. Fabi threw away the win when he missed an opportunity to win nepo's passed pawn and missing out on forcing tiebreaks vs gukesh.

Hm... When I first decided on aquiring this literary masterpiece, I was quite under the impression that there would be a higher annotation:move ratio. I was wrong, but perhaps that is a good thing. There is a plethora of chess enlightenment within the pages. Knowledge isn't spoon-fed to you, as in many lower-level books, but there are excellent annotations which let us peek into the mind of a chess legend. A chess legend whom, if you are reading this page, you probably adore. The games are ones which Bobby Fischer considers memorable, so therefore they must be pretty great, right? They are! Still, as I mentioned, the annotations aren't spoon-fed to you, so you won't be getting anything out of simply playing over the moves really quickly and glancing at the annotations. You actually have to sit in front of Fischer's opponent and contemplate the moves through Fischer's eyes. C.S.Purdy once said,"If the student forces himself to examine all moves that smite, however absurd they may look at first glance, he is on the way to becoming a master of tactics." I quote him, because, a lot of Fischer's moves come out of nowhere. When going over Bobby's games in endeavor to guess which move comes next, calculating the bizarre moves is beneficial. It's an excellent book if you are a dedicated chess player. Casual chess players won't get nearly as much out of it. In other words, if chess is your hobby, you won't get as much out of it. If chess is your life, then stop reading customer reviews, and just go ahead and purchase the book!

Very instructive, even amusing at times. His analyses of possible lines are impossible to follow without playing them out on the board, at least for mortals like me. Can he really see that far ahead? I guess a world champion can. The position is shown fairly often, so it's easy enough to keep up while playing through the games, and it's fun to think, "What would I do?" We even agree, once in a while. I prefer the notation for the moves in Alekhine's book, where they used capital letters for the pieces instead of the little pictures, which don't show up very well on my old Kindle, but are fine on my Samsung phone. A very good book for the chess student or fan.

This book is a collection of 60 games selected by chess master Robert Fischer, and annotated by him. It's a wonderful compendium of games played by him between 1957 and 1967. The literary introductions to the games were written by Larry Evans. Although many of the reasons for the moves in the games are well beyond a player of my level, I still felt like I was made able to understood the strategy behind the moves. Did the book help me improve my own game? Only time will tell. One word of note: The product description here on Amazon says that this book contains the Game of the Century played by Mr. Fischer when he was 15. First of all, the book does not contain the game. Second, Mr. Fischer was 13 when the game was played. Still this is an outstanding book worth owning.

Well written. Fun to do on my computer ChessGenius. Informative. Good learning tool.

A long time ago, when I was a teenager learning how to play chess, I owned a paperback copy of “My 60 Memorable Games” by the late chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer (1943-2008). It was a book I enjoyed tremendously, and from which I learned a great deal. Unfortunately, I lost my copy of this book many years ago. I recently found “My 60 Memorable Games” in a Kindle edition published by Batsford Press. I immediately purchased it. My overall reaction to this Kindle version of Bobby Fischer’s classic book is mostly positive. It contains the same excellent writing by Bobby Fischer. He writes about each of the 60 games he played against various opponents in clear and concise prose that demonstrates the depth of his pure chess genius. He does an excellent job of avoiding jargon, and for the most part, refrains from engaging readers with boring anecdotes about past victories and defeats. The layout for this Kindle edition of “My 60 Memorable Games” is satisfactory. The print is large and set in an easy to read font. Batsford opted to use algebraic rather of English descriptive notation, which makes the book much easier to use. My only complaint is one that I have for most Kindle versions of chess books: the low quality of the chess diagrams. The relatively few diagrams that appear in “My 60 Memorable Games” look like they were copied directly from a newspaper. They are small, blurry, and nearly impossible for my 60-plus year old eyes to decipher. Despite this significant flaw, I have spent many hours reviewing the games that Bobby Fischer has chosen to include in “My 60 Memorable Games,” and I have learned a lot from them. “My 60 Memorable Games” remains an entertaining, informative, and essential tool for any chess player. Recommended.

What's remarkable here is how fresh and witty the young Fischer is. I've read many of the chapter intros and explanations without following the moves, simply enjoying his take on the games. As for the games themselves, I've played through about two dozen, and they represent a wide variety of attacks and defenses -- but at the same time you see Fischer establishing himself in similar ways quite frequently, and I found these patterns to be quite useful in thinking about my own game. He will at times explain his thinking (occasionally going 7,8, 9 moves forward, quite beyond the power of mere mortals), which is alternately illuminating and confusing, but other times he presents a move as being de rigueur, when its motivation is completely obscure to me. So be it, he's Bobby Fischer.

My husband and son are really enjoying working through the games in this book. At first it looked too advanced to be helpful for new chess players, but they tried it and it worked for them. They are learning a lot!

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Que gran libro para los amantes del ajedrez. Como jugaba Bobby Fischer, era increíble. Sobretodo la Ruy López, algunas partidas que marcan a cualquiera. Que reliquia. Muy recomendable!

Kitap gerçekten her satrançseverin kitaplığında bulunması gereken bir kitap ve çok iyi kondisyonda geldi. Bu kitap ve 5334 Chess Problem kitabı Tr deposuna geldiği için fiyatı çok uygun oldu kargo ve gümrük vs açısından umarım Endgame Manual ve Jacop Aaagard'ın kitaplarıda gelir bunu okuyan bir yetkili varsa ricamızdır.

Very smart

Nice book