The Real Bobby Fischer - Petra Dautov

"A Year with the Chess Genius"

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic 11th World Chess Champion, lived in Germany for almost a year beginning in April 1990. He had connected with a woman, Petra Dautov, who had reached out to him two years before. It was not a romantic relationship, but quite intriguing nevertheless. In her own words, “My intention in describing the experiences in this book was to show the human side of the chess genius and allow everyone to make up their own minds.”

As noted by the venerable Fischer biographer Dr. Frank Brady in his Foreword to the book:

…[T]he result is a lively reading experience through the authentic dialog captured by the author. [Fischer] would spend a year in the city of Wiesbaden and mostly in the little town of Seeheim, [the author’s] long-term residence.