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Later in his life, unhappy with his limited knowledge of things beyond the chess board, he compensated with massive study-applying that same hard-butt dedication to other fields: politics, classics, religion, philosophy and more. The brain power and concentrated days and nights Bobby spent studying the game left much of him undeveloped, unable to join conversations on other subjects. Poor Bobby was blessed and cursed by his genius, and his story has the arc of a Greek tragedy-with a grim touch of mad King Lear at the end. The facts of Bobby’s life (I knew him from several memorable appearances on “The Dick Cavett Show” on both sides of the Big Tournament) are presented in page-turner fashion. Even if you don’t give a damn about chess, or Bobby Fischer, you’ll find yourself engrossed by Frank Brady‘s book about Fischer, which reads like a novel.

Cavett lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y. His column appears in the Opinionator blog on *The New York Times* website. The co-author of *Cavett *(1974) and *Eye on Cavett* (1983), he has also appeared on Broadway in *Otherwise Engaged* and *Into the Woods,* and as narrator in *The Rocky Horror Show*, and has made guest appearances in movies and on TV shows including *Forrest Gump* and *The Simpsons*. *Jason Kirk* **Guest Reviewer: Dick Cavett** **Dick Cavett** is the host of “The Dick Cavett Show”-which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982-Dick Cavett is the author, most recently, of *Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets*. All told, Fischer's life was like none other, and told through the lens of Brady's personal familiarity and access to new source material, results in an utterly engaging read. economic sanctions, his incarceration in Japan, his eventual citizenship and quiet demise in Iceland. Though Fischer's pinnacle artistry on the chessboard may often be discussed in the same breath with his eventual paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism, the particular turns and travels of his post-World Championship years (half his life) lend his story most of its vexing oddity: the niggling insistence on seemingly arbitrary conditions for his matches, the years on the lam after flagrantly disregarding U.S. With *Endgame*, published two years after Fischer's death, Brady's on-and-off proximity to Fischer lends new depth to the latter's full and twisted life story.

Brady's *Profile of a Prodigy* (originally published in 1969) chronicled the chess icon's early years, a selection of 90 games, and (in later editions) his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky.

Review **Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2011**: There may be no one more qualified than Frank Brady to write the definitive biography of Bobby Fischer.

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