Icelandic grandmaster Helgi Olafsson was a member of the committee that successfully worked to free Bobby Fischer from a Japanese detention centre.

 

Olafsson first met his childhood hero shortly after Fischer's dramatic return to Iceland in 2005. In the following years, the two spent countless hours together. They made trips, watched movies, played games, spoke on the phone almost every day, had fun and quarrelled.

 

This book tells the story of a unique friendship and paints an intimate and revealing picture of the last years of Bobby Fischer.

 

The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions