Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 191. Chapters: Aron Nimzowitsch, Tigran Petrosian, François-André Danican Philidor, Max Euwe, Howard Staunton, José Raúl Capablanca, Wilhelm Steinitz, Mikhail Botvinnik, Bobby Fischer, Emanuel Lasker, George H. D. Gossip, Paul Keres, Ashot Nadanian, Vasily Smyslov, Reuben Fine, Hugh Myers, Charles Ranken, Lev Aronin, Salo Flohr, John Cochrane, Efim Geller, Johann Baptist Allgaier, Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Miguel Najdorf, Stuart Milner-Barry, Larry Evans, Grigory Levenfish, Siegbert Tarrasch, Weaver W. Adams, Savielly Tartakower, Nicolas Rossolimo, Tony Miles, Mikhail Chigorin, Robert Wade, Akiba Rubinstein, Frank Marshall, Svetozar Gligoric, Victor Soultanbeieff, James Hanham, Viacheslav Ragozin, Philip Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Efim Bogoljubov, Pal Benko, Isaac Boleslavsky, Vladimir Antoshin, Philip Walsingham Sergeant, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Amos Burn, Lev Polugaevsky, Vladas Mikenas, Carl Schlechter, Isaac Lipnitsky, Evgeny Sveshnikov, Michal Krasenkow, Yuri Averbakh, Alexander Kevitz, Géza Maróczy, Richard Réti, Julian Hodgson, András Adorján, Éric Prié, Vladimir Simagin, Edward Freeborough, Philipp Stamma, Ernst Grünfeld, Robert Hübner, Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, Karl Robatsch, Yakov Estrin, Ludek Pachman, Igor Zaitsev, Vladimir Bagirov, Dawid Janowski, Kurt Richter, Alexey Suetin, Vitaly Chekhover, Mark Taimanov, Nick de Firmian, Viktor Knorre, Oleg Romanishin, Johann Berger, Tibor Károlyi, James Mason, Dragoljub Velimirovic, Karel Opocenský, Igor Bondarevsky, Joseph Bertin, Edgard Colle, Paul Saladin Leonhardt, Alexander Petrov, Giambattista Lolli, Vladimir Makogonov, Igor Glek, Szymon Winawer, Carlos Torre Repetto, Jacques Mieses, Henry Bird, Nicolai Jasnogrodsky, Adolf Albin, Preston Ware, Petar Trifunovic, Folke Ekström, Gioachino Greco, Vladimir Nenarokov, Alexey Troitsky, Henri Grob, Nikolai Riumin, Alessandro Salvio, Pietro Carrera, Emil Josef Diemer, Aivars Gipslis, Carl Göring, Bukhuti Gurgenidze, Friedrich Sämisch, Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky, Ilya Kan, Ernst Falkbeer, Michael Basman, Semyon Alapin, Alexey Sokolsky, Ruy López de Segura, André Chéron, Daniël Noteboom, Miguel Quinteros, Gyula Breyer, Gavriil Veresov, Louis Paulsen, Bernhard Horwitz, Vsevolod Rauzer, Vincent Grimm, Sammi Fajarowicz, Leonid Shamkovich, Max Lange, Karlis Betins, George Walker, Vasja Pirc, Orla Hermann Krause, John Herbert White, Walter Korn, Eugene Ernest Colman, Carl Jaenisch, Alexander Wagner, Jorgen Moeller, Horatio Caro, Bernhard Fleissig, Maximilian Ujtelky, Carl Hamppe, Jerzy Konikowski, Vasily Panov, Alvis Vitolins, Hermann Keidanski, Karel Hromádka, Marcus Kann, Benjamin Blumenfeld, István Abonyi, Richard Griffith, Octavio Trompowsky, Elias Stein, Josef Kling. Excerpt: Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008) was an American chess player and the eleventh World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author. After ending his competitive career, he proposed a new variant of chess and a modified chess timing system. Both ideas have received some support in recent years. Widely considered a "chess legend", at age 13 Fischer won a "brilliancy" that became known as The Game of the Century. Starting at age 14, he played in eight United States Championships, winning each by at least a point. At 151/2, he became both the youngest grandmaster and the youngest Candidate for the World Champio.