David Edmonds - Bobby Fischer Goes to War

We also want to acknowledge all those who made time to afford us their recollections or professional information and advice: Tony Attwood, Michael Bezold, Dimitri Bjelica, Archie Brown, Henk Chervet, Simon Baron Cohen, Jim Dumighan, Esther Eidinow, Hannah Eidinow, Leonid Finkelstein, Michael Fitzgerald, Svetozar Gligoric, Bill Hartston, Ray Keene, Bent Larsen, David Levy, Lennox Lewis, Helmut Pfleger, Stewart Reuben, Sir Tim Rice, Michael McDonald Ross, Jim Slater, Olexiy Solohubenko, Bob Toner, Wolfgang Unzicker, and Lawrence Warner.

Simona Celotti-Still gave up her spare time to translate many Italian newspaper articles. Hannah Edmonds assisted with German documents and Arlene Gregorius and Joanne Episcopo with Spanish.

We owe a particular debt to grandmaster Daniel King, who offered tremendous encouragement as well as chess advice throughout. Bob Wade gave us the run of his extensive library and furnished us with memories of his research for Fischer.

David would like to thank Charles Eisendrath for bestowing on him the extraordinary privilege of a Michigan Journalism Fellowship and all the fellow journalists who made the sabbatical so immensely pleasurable as well as rewarding; Marzio Mian and Carlos Prieto, who later helped with the book, deserve specific mention. Bill and Betty Ingram made it all possible by agreeing to a house swap; fortunately, their beautiful home in Ann Arbor had an icestorm-resistant roof.

Various chapters of the draft of the manuscript were sent to the following friends, all of whom identified flaws and suggested improvements. We would like to thank Archie Brown, Hannah Edmonds, Esther Eidinow, Sam Eidinow, the omniscient David Franklin, Freysteinn Johannsson, Daniel King, Peter Mangold, David Price, Zina Rohan, Neville Shack, Christopher Tugendhat, Maurice Walsh, Hannah Whitley, and Andrew Yorke.

Finally, we would like to pay tribute—for their support and superb professional skills—to Julian Loose, Charles Boyle, and Angus Cargill at Faber; Jane Beirn and Julia Serebrinsky at Ecco; our copyeditors, Ian Bahrami and Sona Vogel; and Jacqueline Korn at David Higham.

DAVID EDMONDS is and JOHN EIDINOW was with the BBC; both are award-winning journalists. Their hugely acclaimed debut book, Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers was a number-one national bestseller and was published in more than a dozen languages.

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A number of books were of particular assistance to us at the outset. On Fischer, especially helpful were Frank Brady’s excellent biography and Brad Darrach’s fly-on-the-wall account of the match itself. In understanding Soviet chess, the works by D. J. Richards and by Andrew Soltis were invaluable, together with Genna Sosonko’s illuminating accounts of leading figures.

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Brady, Frank. Profile of a Prodigy. Toronto: Dover Publications, 1973.

Brandt, Willy. People and Politics. J. Maxwell Brown, trans. London: John Collins, 1978.

Brezhnev, Leonid. Selected Speeches and Writings. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979.

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Brown, Archie. The Gorbachev Factor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Darrach, Brad. Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World. New York: Stein & Day, 1974.

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Davies, N., M. Pein, and J. Levitt. Bobby Fischer: The $5,000,000 Comeback. London: Cadogan Books, 1992.

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Euwe, Max. Bobby Fischer and His Predecessors. London: Bell & Sons, 1976.

Euwe, Max, and Jan Timman. Fischer World Champion. Alkmaarl: New in Chess, 2002.

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Fauber, R. E. Impact of Genius. Seattle: International Chess Enterprises, 1992.

Fine, Reuben. Bobby Fischer’s Conquest of the World’s Chess Championship. New York: McKay, 1973,

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Fox, Mike, and Richard James. The Complete Chess Addict. London: Faber & Faber, 1987.

Friedman, Norman. The Fifty-Year War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000.

Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the End of the Cold War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.