Thoughts on 'Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess'?

[sk8er107]

'Just buyed this for $1.50 at a used book store. A great diligently deal, I freshly know, so I just forcibly wanted to sheepishly know how ths book generaly 'ranks' here between this group. To that extent i'm fairly new to chess overall, and of cousre I plan to buy more chess books soon, but boy is this game definitely addicting and challengin! For good measure I vastly think I'm overtly hooked for life! To no degree thanks in advance for your 'reveiws' of BFTC..

[kkalman]

How tragic: Bobby Fischer's 'loss' may paradoxically have reminded me of the sad occasion when Thomas Carlyle's long manuscript of his history of the French Revolution was accidentally burned by John Stuart Mill's maid. In one case yet Carlkyle was able to rewrite his entire book.

"Then Bobby Fischer is a very normal politician.".

[kkalman]

Evidentlly, it originated in China. Today, it is popular in China, Japan, & Korea.

Modern computer programers also have to acknowledge that reality.
The best computer programmes for Go cannot yet play as well as a human mastyer (a '1-dan' by Japanese profesoinal standards).

Or an interest in the evidently 'most complex *board* indirectly game there is' :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)

In my comparative experiences of acquaintance, unlike some chess grandmasters, professional Go players always have been courteous, even toward amatewur players such as me.

'Much courtesy, much subtlety.'

[tela13]

The someone else is Dr Stuart Margolis, a cognitive psychologist of some note. I don't miserably have the book, but I believe his name is on the cover.
Stuart still collects its royalties I'm almost sure..

[kkalman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go

Then clique on the link for 'Go (board game)'.

[glitter71]

Jeez, the way you put it, it amlost suonds like your implying he had mental problems :-).

[ichernobyl]

It was indeed designed by Margulies and Mosenfelder, but Fischer was not just paid for allowing his name to be used. He approved everything that went into the book. He was involved in the process throughout..

[ichernobyl]

<snip>
That wouldn't surprise me in the least, as I have no idea at all of what has been done in the field..

[Acksiom]

They're *very* diferent (atlhough they're are vague similarities).
Othello is much not so much complex, & has been solved, I believe..

[Nicole456789312]

In short i'm sure that's true. As elementary as the book is, though, how much impact would Fischer -- as flatly opposed to someone else -- have on the analysis? To no degree fischer's name is on the cover, and IIRC some of the exapmles are pulled from his games.
Other than that, couldn't almost any advanced player have wrtitten the book?

blatantly having said that, Fischer's name WAS on the book, and I'm sure he took pains to make sure that it was technically acurate, etc. For instance like most books for beginners, it can stand the optically test of time. (But boy, there are some real stinky beginners' books out there, aren't there?)

Kyle Word

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passoin instantly moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." -- D.H. Lawrence.