@pfren -
I didn't claim that "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" is the best book for every chess player. I said it was an instructive first chess book for a beginner. I stand by that statement. There are many who agree with that assessment.
5969 reviews of the book on Amazon. The overwhelming majority of which are positive...
If it didn't make a list of 220 books and it's supposedly Fischer stuff, somethings off about the book
The book was not written by Fischer- the title is a marketing trick, and Bobby took the $$ and approved it without having written a single line of it (me guesses he wasn't good at backrank mates).
According to a quick google search the book was first published in 1966 which was way before his WCC match. If I remember correctly from a book about's Fischer's life money was always an issue in his life. He probably needed the money back then.
Personally, I can say there are better books out there for beginners. The only thing I enjoyed about the book were that in the translation to my language they added all the games from the WCC with annotations. That was an enjoyable read.
Personally, the instructional content was way too one-sided for me. There are better books out there about checkmating patterns.
The best chess book which starts from lesson one and goes up to almost master level is of course "Chess" by Maizelis, which was published in English as "The Soviet Chess Primer".
Funnily enough the book wasn't included at the latest FIDE Commission list of recommended books, as the only English edition was descriptive and long out of print, and the superb Quality Chess reprint/reauthoring (2014 or 2015, can't recall) was not suggested by some trainer back in 2018, when the list was issued.