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Helgi Ólafsson: Bobby Fischer Comes Home. The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions. 
Signed by Helgi Ólafsson.

With a foreword by World Champion Viswanathan Anand. Helgi Ólafsson was fifteen years old when in 1972 Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky to become World Chess Champion. Breathlessly, young Helgi followed the Match of the Century and even attended a number of games in Reykjavik's Laugardalshöll. 

Little could Ólafsson suspect then that 33 years on. having become a chess grandmaster himself, he would be a member of the committee that successfully wworked to free Fischer from a Japanese detention centre. On March 24, 2005, Bobby Fischer returned to the country where he had achieved his greatest triumph. He was never to leave again until his tragic death on January 17, 2008.

Ólafsson first met his childhood hero shortly after his return. In the following years, the two spent countless hours together. The made trips, went to restaurants, watched movies, played games, spoke on the phone almost every day, had fun and quarrelled. Bobby Fischer Comes Home tells the story of a unique friendship and paints an intimate and revealing picture of the last years of the man who many see as the greatest chess player that ever lived. 

14.5 x 22 cm hardback. 143 pages. New In Chess, Alkmaar, 2012. Condition VG.

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