Hey.
I´d like to know if anyone has specific information about the methods of study Bobby Fischer used.
Lately, it's something haunts me.
I know he learned the russian language as a teenager to learn russian chess literature.
I know the phrase (one of the best anecdotes in the history of chess) that a teacher told him at school "I can´t make you listen to me or leave chess, but, for decency, don´t take the chess board".
The most important question for me (I know it is something difficult to know and speculate) is to know how many books and at what speed he read.
I see in a photo of a newspaper of the time, where someone (I don´t remember the name) mentions that he knows all the games since 1898. This article, I think was published more or less about the time JFK murder.
Ljubo Ljubojevic commented that speaking with the popular genius Bobby Fischer, he told him that he had studied more than a thousand games of Wilhelm Steinitz, something that was very surprising for Grand Master Ljubojevic, since he told us that in all his life he never found more than 400 games of Steinitz!
I wonder: This genius, what concrete methods of learning he used?
I´d like to know if anyone has specific information about the methods of study Bobby Fischer used.
Lately, it's something haunts me.
I know he learned the russian language as a teenager to learn russian chess literature.
I know the phrase (one of the best anecdotes in the history of chess) that a teacher told him at school "I can´t make you listen to me or leave chess, but, for decency, don´t take the chess board".
The most important question for me (I know it is something difficult to know and speculate) is to know how many books and at what speed he read.
I see in a photo of a newspaper of the time, where someone (I don´t remember the name) mentions that he knows all the games since 1898. This article, I think was published more or less about the time JFK murder.
Ljubo Ljubojevic commented that speaking with the popular genius Bobby Fischer, he told him that he had studied more than a thousand games of Wilhelm Steinitz, something that was very surprising for Grand Master Ljubojevic, since he told us that in all his life he never found more than 400 games of Steinitz!
I wonder: This genius, what concrete methods of learning he used?