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Bobby Fischer Goes to War is the story of Bobby Fischer's famous chess match against Boris Spassky in the 1972 World Chess Championship. It was originally written as a book by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, and is now being adapted into a feature film.
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- Film directed by Kevin Macdonald
- Release date TBA 2010
- Bobby Fischer died January 17, 2008
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Book Review Quote
Reading a book about a chess match that discusses the games at length without providing the actual sequence of moves is like attending a banquet where the most delicious recipes are discussed yet not a bite of food is served. There is also the padding in which Edmonds and Eidinow unaccountably wrap their subject. This includes boring excursions into Idi Amin's reign of terror in Uganda, the Wimbledon women's tennis final, Allende's Chile and the Watergate break-in, all of which are presented as context but slow things down to a snail's pace. — The New York Times -
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War on Amazon
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time - $24.95
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 notor...
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine (P.S.) - $13.95
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for t...
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