num_pages: 480
description: Revealing biography of the controversial chess champion, written by a chess player who knew Fischer since the latter was 11. It chronicles Fischer's tumultuous public and private lives, including an analysis of 90 games that trace his rise to supremacy plus a complete history of the1972 Fischer-Spassky match. 26 photographs.
language: English
title: Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy
titlecomplete: Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy
characters: Bobby Fischer
genres: Chess, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 179
publisher: Dover Publications