Architect of the Opening: The Cold War, the Crown, and the Collapse of Bobby Fischer (How Bobby Fischer Conquered Chess and Lost Reality)

He revolutionized the game. Then, the game consumed him.Long before the world stage became a geopolitical chessboard, a fatherless boy in brooklyn found a rigid, unyielding sanctuary within sixty-four squares of wood and cardboard. In a chaotic postwar world where nothing else could be controlled, chess offered robert james fischer absolute logic. It was a language he mastered with feral intensity...