Bobby Fischer Goes to War

How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time

Ranked #30 in Chess

In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men - the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer - met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film.

Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential...

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