Endgame : Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall -- from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness.

When Bobby Fischer Died In January 2008, He Left Behind A Confounding Legacy. Everyone Knew The Basics Of His Life: He Began As A Brilliant Youngster, Then Became The Pride Of American Chess, Then Took A Sharp Turn, Struggling With Paranoia And Mental Illness. But Nobody Truly Understood Him. What Motivated Him From Such A Young Age, And What Was The Source Of His Remarkable Intellect? How Could A Man So Ambivalent About Money And Fame Be So Driven To Succeed? What Drew This Man Of Jewish Descent To Fulminate Against Jews, And How Was It That A Mind So Famously Disciplined Could Unravel So Completely? From His Meteoric Rise, To An Utterly Dominant Prime, To His Eventual Descent Into Madness, The Book Draws Upon Hundreds Of Newly Discovered Documents And Recordings, And Numerous Firsthand Interviews Conducted With Those Who Knew Fischer Best, To Paint, For The Very First Time, A Complete Picture Of One Of The Most Enigmatic Icons. This Is The Definitive Account Of A Fascinating Man And An Extraordinary Life, One That At Last Reconciles Fischer's Deeply Contradictory Legacy And Answers The Question: 'who Was Bobby Fischer?' Cover Title Page Dedication Table of Contents AUTHOR'S NOTE Epigraph 1 : Loneliness to Passion 2 : Childhood Obsession 3 : Out of the Head of Zeus 4 : The American Wunderkind 5 : The Cold War Gladiator 6 : The New Fischer 7 : Einstein's Theory 8 : Legends Clash 9 : The Candidate 10 : The Champion 11 : The Wilderness Years 12 : Fischer-Spassky Redux 13 : Crossing Borders 14 : Arrest and Rescue 15 : Living and Dying in Iceland Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Plates Copyright.