Book reviews By a Potzer for a Potzer PT2
ENDGAME by Frank Brady is without a doubt my favorite non-improving chess book of all time. This book is easily one of the most well-written books I have ever read, and I don't just mean in chess; I mean it is one of my favorite books of all time, as I've personally read the entire book 5 times front to back.
Brady takes the most interesting man in chess history for a second time, having written Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (which is also a great book). Brady brings Fischer's whole life into view, from the time before he learned chess till the day he died, from the time he played the game of the century against Byrne to the time he won a perfect 11/11 in the US championship, all the way to his crowning as the world champion in 1972.
Brady has made the book so engrossing that I read it every day at any given chance that I could till I finished it. Before reading the book, I had believed foolishly that I knew pretty much everything that I could have found on Fischer, which was proven absolutely wrong by Brady. Brady was very meticulous with this book, and it shows in his writing and his crediting of his sources.
If you are a chess history lover like I am, then this would be one of the first books I would recommend to anyone, as it is extremely well researched, the writing is overall spectacular and full of information I could have never guessed, and a lot of backstory to tournaments or events that Fischer was a part of.
