# Searching for Bobby Fischer

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- Book: [Searching for Bobby Fischer](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-waitzkin/searching-for-bobby-fischer) ([Searching for Bobby Fischer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-waitzkin/searching-for-bobby-fischer.md))
- Authors: [Fred Waitzkin](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-waitzkin)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4023-038-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1993-08-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The father of a real american chess prodigy reflects on chess, competition, childhood, and his son's meteoric rise to the highest levels of global competition. “[A] little gem of a book.”...