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Bobby Fischer-"Bobby Fischer's Chess Games"-1972-Doubleday-5" X 9"-446 pages-Hardcover Book-With Photos-With Illustrations-Signed By Author.....................Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, at age 14 he won the 1958 U.S. Championship. In 1964, he won the same tournament with a perfect score (11 wins). Qualifying for the 1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6-0 scores. After another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, the match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since. The book has been autographed on the title page by Robert Fischer...............BOTH BOOK AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.