My 60 Memorable Games
My 60 Memorable Games (Original title: My 60 Memorable Games) is a chess book published in 1969, in which the chess grandmaster and World Champion Robert James Fischer later presenting a selection of his games from 1957 to 1967.
Content
Fischer discusses own 60 games, he completely, ie analyzed in all game phases of the opening to the endgame. This tournament games are against world-class players such as Pál Benkő, Mikhail Botvinnik, Max Euwe, Efim Geller, Svetozar Gligorić, Viktor Korchnoi, Bent Larsen, Miguel Najdorf, Paul Keres, Tigran Petrosian, Lajos Portisch, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Leonid Stein László Szabó and Mikhail Tal next games against American champion player, a free game against Reuben Fine (lot 44) and a simultaneous game (lot 50). In this way, Fischer also the then modern state of opening theory, but the focus of his comments is on thorough analyzes of the middle and endgame phase. In games against Soviet player fishermen often contrasts his analysis with those in Soviet chess magazines and accuses these ideologically motivated partisan votes in favor of Fischer's opponents. Every game has its own epitaphartigen title and introduction of the chess master and journalist Larry Evans. Fischer also takes draw and loss in games on his game collection, while many other masters only publish collections of their own winning plays.
Expenditure
The book My 60 Memorable Games, published in 1969 in the United States from the publisher Schuster & Schuster and in the UK at the publisher Faber and Faber each in descriptive chess notation. A German edition in algebraic notation was published in 1970 at the Hamburg Verlag Dr. Eduard Wild Hagen, entitled My 60 Memorable Games.
In the Soviet Union published in 1972 a Russian, algebraically recorded output. At a press conference on September 1, 1992, a day before the start of the match with Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan (Yugoslavia) accused Fischer Russia to have withheld from him despite his repeated reminders, royalties for the publication of the book. He accused Russia of, whether with the pressure of 50,000 copies in the USSR have been violated international conventions on copyright and leaned to the payment of royalties from any contact with Russians. By payment of $ 100,000 by the newly elected FIDE President Ilyumzhinov the dispute was finally resolved at the end of 1995.
In 1995, an English edition appeared with the English publisher Batsford in algebraic notation. Fischer accused the publisher then at a press conference in 1996 in Buenos Aires before that the output is not authorized and is also full of errors and distorts his work. It was also noted that had been added during the transfer of the notation and editorial work of the text for the game 35 fishermen against Julio Bolbochán in Stockholm in 1962, a variant containing an impossible according to the rules of chess train.
On the internet auction site eBay turned up end of 2007 to any alleged illegally copied successor edition called My 61 Memorable Games. The auction was later removed. In a correspondence with the adjuster Larry Evans researched the background and came to the conclusion that it was a fraudulent -made fake.