A Tribute to Robert James Fischer

"Bobby Fischer. This enigmatic genius has elevated the game to hitherto unimaginable heights, reaching the front pages of the world's newspapers and more than doubling the number of registered players in the Western World. Fischer's popularization of the game he loves has also had a pronounced effect on chess literature. Since December 1970 when he began his successful journey on the road to the World Championship title, more chess magazines have been born, more newspapers have published chess columns, and many more chess books have appeared on the market than ever before over the same time span. It surprises me that only a small handful of these books have been about Fischer