Your Fischer-Spassky book link was written by C.H. O'D. Alexander, very recognizable. All sorts of authors put out a book on the '72 match -- the NY Times, Gligoric, Golumbek, Euwe, Purdy, Reshevsky, etc. I read the Larry Evans version because it had all the diagrams. I probably have a half-dozen of the others on a bookshelf that I haven't looked at since BF passed.

The fact of the matter is you endlessly wag on and on about how other posters aren't posting chess, and how egregious it is for <CG>.

Then you turn around and do the same, often by hiding the crap in a chess post, but in this case just out on its own:

Robert James Fischer (kibitz #59177)

I think you posted your external link merely because the title mentioned bear.

but we craved game reports. We had ABC, CBS, NBC and Public TV>

I recall that WNET covered in real time the entire first playing session of each game, which could last up to five hours (!). The host was Shelby Lyman, and among his guests were Robert Byrne, Eugene Meyer, Bruce Pandolfini, and I think James Sherwin. Lyman used two demonstration boards: one for the actual position and one for analysis.

I believe that the resumption of play after adjournments was also covered live, although I'm hazier about this.

Choda also wrote the third volume in Alekhine's greatest games series. AA wrote the first two volumes, but was (ahem) "unavailable" to write the 3rd one.

Not trying to disparage Choda, but he just didn't have the way with words that AA had:

Alekhine vs H Weenink, 1931

I'd offer another quote, but the comments pages have been purged from the AA-Weenink game. So I will paraphrase:

User: micartouse posted the exact quote:

Alekhine vs H Weenink, 1931

Shameful, petty, and pathetic.

You are a fookin numptie..

It's a good excuse to come here and link to Edward Winter's take on the matter:

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter...

As to the legitimacy of the edition, I'll just quote these two quotes from Winter:

<Via Frederic Friedel (Hamburg, Germany) we learn that Garðar Sverrisson, who may be regarded as Fischer’s closest confidant in Iceland, states that Fischer would never have considered bringing out a book such as My 61 Memorable Games without consulting him. Mr Sverrisson writes:

<‘When I told Bobby about the forgery in early December 2007 he just became sad and disappointed, exactly as he used to react when he learned about slander or a similar betrayal. At that time his health was deteriorating, and we had other things to worry about than who might be behind this book.

When we discussed the possibility of having My 60 Memorable Games republished he was very much against using any improvements of his own or others (including computers). And changing the notation from the descriptive to the algebraic was out of the question.

We never saw My 61 Memorable Games, and I still have not seen it.’>>

and,

<At our request, Aðalsteinn Thorarensen (Reykjavik) has kindly provided an English translation of a paragraph about My 61 Memorable Games on pages 168-169 of the new book mentioned in C.N. 9568, <Yfir farinn veg með> Bobby Fischer by Garðar Sverrisson (Reykjavik, 2015):

‘Some time after he came home [from hospital] we became aware of a new book in circulation, My 61 Memorable Games, which was claimed to be by Bobby. The book supposedly contained the 60 games that he had selected and annotated in his book My 60 Memorable Games with the addition of one game from his match against Spassky in 1992. Every time he had discussed the possibility of re-issuing this book [My 60 Memorable Games] he had been opposed to my idea of publishing it with revised annotations by himself and others, which I was convinced would make the book even more valuable. To Bobby, it was more important that the original sources should be preserved in their original form. To meddle with the text of an already published book was so ridiculous to him that I doubt whether he would have agreed to correct even obvious spelling mistakes, if found. My 60 Memorable Games was no less dear to him than many of his victories in chess. He was therefore very sad when I brought him the news of that counterfeit publication, which, we discovered later, had been illustrated with the Icelandic flag and photographs taken for private use by Icelanders with whom he was no longer associated.’

(9600)

C.N. 11654 reported that an English translation of Sverrisson’s book had been published: Bobby Fischer The Final Years (Reykjavik, 2019).>

n.b. [Last update 2022-10-22]

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter...

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Alexander Shashin. See below for a 2015 post by me. But the link I had doesn’t work any more.

<< keypusher: <thegoodanarchist> You have to allow me a little hyperbole. But see below from a 2008 chess cafe interview with Alexander Shashin -- the link doesn't seem to work anymore, though. <<MS: What do you think of Fischer?>

Who beat Fischer in 1966?

The answer was:

<todicav23: I asked ChatGPT the following question:>

Can a king and two knights checkmate a king and a pawn?

The answer is hilarious because it gives you a non-sense example without providing the initial position:

Yes, it is possible for a king and two knights to checkmate a king and a pawn. This can be achieved by using a combination of pins, forks, and discovered attacks to control the pawn and attack the enemy king. Here is an example of how a king and two knights can checkmate a king and a pawn: