Bobby Fischer games, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. His book "My 60 Memorable Games", published in 1969, is regarded as a classic work of chess literature. He won the 1970 Interzonal Tournament by a record 3½-point margin, and won 20 consecutive games, including two unprecedented 6–0 sweeps, in the Candidates Matches. In July 1971, he became the first official FIDE number-one-rated player. Fischer won the World Chess Championship in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR, in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, it attracted more
Manhattan Chess Club the club include Arnold Denker, Arthur Feuerstein, Bobby Fischer, I. A. Horowitz, William Lombardy, and Samuel Reshevsky. In 1970 Fischer played in a blitz tournament organised by the club, scoring 21½/22. Former world chess champion José Raúl Capablanca was watching a casual game in the club on 7 March 1942 when he suffered a stroke; he died the next day. The book entitled, "The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories", by Denker and Larry Parr, contains many stories about the Manhattan Chess Club. Manhattan Chess Club The Manhattan Chess Club in Manhattan was the second-oldest chess club in the