I have that book, and it's good for the variations it covers. Watch out though: he only covers the main main main lines (like he only covers Bg5 in the Najdorf) and does a lot of "I encourage further studying" throughout the book. Once you actually do do further studying, this book is rendered useless. He also does a lot of saying what theorists currently think of the line, and not WHY. The only other problem I had with the book is that it has a chapter for the Open Games, Semi-Open, Closed, Indian, etc. But then at the end of the book that last few chapters are devoted entirely to the KID, Pirc, and Barcza system. It would help if he had that amount of theory on the openings more likely to arise.

All the more interesting, because I don't think I've ever heard of Fischer complementing a chess book or author. He owned many chess books, but never seemed to talk about them.

I think I saw one interview where BF mentions he had one of the real basic intro books, like Capa's "Chess Fundamentals" as a kid, or something like that.

" Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth. "

-- Seirawan>

--Yasser Seirawan (1992) p. 291 "No Regrets"

An example of myth-making:

"He praised 9/11 because of the number of Jews who were killed in the World Trade Center." --Paul Hoffman, (2007) p.13 "King's Gambit"

Reality check:

"Bobby was in Japan, which is 14 hours ahead of New York...it was almost impossible for Bobby to have known the extent of damage or loss of life at the time he made the broadcast...If you listen to the exact words Bobby used, you will find that he never mentions the attack on the World Trade Center. Nowhere in the interview does he say the words "World Trade Center". If you listen carefully, you will also see that the interviewer does not say that the World Trade Center has been attacked. Rather, the interviewer refers to "the attack on the White House and I think the Pentagon too"." --Sam Sloan (2002ish) "Bobby Fischer's Statements have been Misrepresented" http://www.anusha.com/bobbyout.htm

Horse pucky. The interviewer mentioned the world trade center at the start of the interview. Sloan is just lying as a quick glance at this transcipt will show.

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/arti...

I'm a big fan of Yasser for many reasons, but foremost is his personality. He seems to only want the best for chess and chess players.

I read in an intro to a rook/pawn endgame book that he is a big boxing fan, that he and some other GM on the west coast used to sit around for hours, watching boxing on TV or YouTube, and discussing the pugilists.

I particulary liked some of the asides in his book about the '92 Fischer Spassky rematch 'No Regrets.'

Fish still wasn't speaking to Yaz, years after Yaz had called him 'the ghost of Pasadena', in a book or magazine article. They met up in this Yugo resort town where the match was being held, Yaz sort of apologized and Fischer said "Lets just forget the whole thing."

A few days later, they were both at the beach, on a rest day, and Fish walked over and invited Yaz to dinner. They spent the evening analyzing the part of the match that had been played, and yaz was able to remember the home analysis comments, and relay the moves in his book. Fish has a live in girlfriend at this point, a girl from the Balkans, I think. Kind of interesting stuff if you have closely followed RJF's career.