TheGamesot- Robert J. Fischer, Edited by Robert G.Wade and Kevin J.O’Connell With Contributions by. Leonard Barden Arthur Bisguier LS. Blackstock Harry Golombek Paul KeresRobert James Fischer, US champion at the age of fourteen, at twenty-cight became the highest-rated player in the history of chess. For, in qualifying as the 1972 Challenger to the world title, he achieved the unique feat of overwhelming three of the world’s top grandmasters by the fantastic score of 184 - 24, This volume records every serious game accessible to the editors (some previously unpublished) that Bobby Fischer has played since 1955, when as a boy of twelve his games began to appear in print. A large proportion of the 660 complete games included have notes on critical variations and twenty of Fischer’s most important encounters have been annotated in depth by Bob Wade; these are supported by over 700 diagrams of key positions. The book also contains numerous tournament tables and records, as well as an index of total results against every opponent. But The Games of Robert J. Fischerismore than a complete work of reference to his North American, International, Olympiad and World Championship achievements. Bobby Fischer himself, both as a man and as a player, is brought vividly to life in the special articles contributed by international grandmasters Paul Keres and Arthur Bisguier, by former British champions Leonard Barden, Harry Golombek and Bob Wade and by openings expert Les Blackstock. As all these writers agree — and as the reader can see for himself — Fischer’s games provide the ablest, the most tense and the hardest-fought examples of contemporary chess. The Games of Robert J. Fischer The Contributors: Leonard Barden —- co-British champion 1954, Chess correspondent The Guardian. Arthur Bisguier - US champion and International grandmaster, lives in New York. Leslie Blackstock — openings expert, reg- ular contributor to Chessman Quarterly and The Chessplayer. Harry Golombek- British champion 1947, 1949 and 1955, Chess correspondent The Times and The Observer. Paul Keres — one of the World’s greatest grandmasters, still active. Lives in Tallinn, Estonia, USSR. The Editors: Robert Wade — twice British and thrice New Zealand champion, editor Con- temporary Chess Openings series. Kevin O’Connell — Essex county player and bulletin editor. OTHER BATSFORD CHESS BOOKS The World Chess Championship S. Gligorié, R. G, Wade Full match scores, with annotations and diagrams, of every post-war series, begin- ning with the 1948 tournament, together with an intimate portrait of each world champion by Yugoslav grandmaster Svetozar Gligori¢. Spassky’s 100 Best Games Bernard Cafferty Foreword by Leonard Barden Botvinnik’s Best Games 1947-1970 Mikhail Botvinnik Edited by Bernard Cafferty The Battle of Chess Ideas Anthony Saidy Think Like a Grandmaster Alexander Kotov Translated by Bernard Cafferty The jacket illustration is a collage of Fischer about to play Petrosian during the Match of the Century, Belgrade 1970, and of a position against Don Byrne in the Lessing J. Roseniwald Trophy Tournament 1956 issn 0 7134 136402 Bobby Fischer, aged 14, in play at the Manhattan Chess Club, New York, June 1957