NIC Podcast #92: IM John Donaldson
In today’s episode of the New In Chess podcast, I talk to International Master and prolific chess author John Donaldson. The first time John appeared on the podcast, I had invited him as the captain of the American team on the eve of the 2024 Budapest Olympiad. John has been the captain of the American team for many years and Budapest was his 15th Olympiad, a truly impressive number!This time I have invited John to talk about his latest book on what may safely be called his hero, Bobby Fischer. John has written a lot about Fischer and in 2022 he published his magnum opus Bobby Fischer and His World, a thick book of 644 pages bringing together an enormous amount of material about the 11th World Champion.Now he has published a new book that is similar in appearance to Bobby Fischer and His World, and is called Inside the Mind of Bobby Fischer. In a voluminous book of 400 pages, John revisits everything he could find that Fischer has written as a chess analyst. Which means that he not only175