Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Tarin ya fara ne a shekara ta 1957, ba tare da sanannen "Game of the Century" da Donald Byrne a shekara ta 1956 ba (wannan wasan an haɗa shi a cikin ƙaramin aiki mai sauƙi mai suna "Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess", wanda aka buga a 1959). Rashin nasarar uku shine Tal a gasar 'yan takara ta 1959, Spassky a Mar del Plata 1960, da Geller a Skopje 1967. Daga cikin fafatawar da aka yi ita ce gamuwar da ya yi da Zakaran Duniya Mikhail Botvinnik, a gasar 1962 ta Varna
Wasannin Olympics. Wannan wasan ya ƙunshi mafi tsawo yanki na bincike a cikin littafin, tare da Fischer kammala cewa ya rasa nasara a cikin endgame. Botvinnik daga baya ya yi jayayya da wannan, tare da ƙin yarda daga ɗayan ɗaliban makarantar chess, mai shekaru 13 mai suna Garry Kasparov. Wannan shi ne daya daga cikin 'yan misalai na bincike na Fischer da ake tambaya. Daga cikin nasarorin da ya samu shine nasarar da ya samu na farko na babban mashahurin Soviet, Paul Keres a Zurich 1959, da kuma nasarar da ya samu a matsayin Black a kan Robert Byrne a gasar zakarun Amurka ta 1963/64. Akwai wasanni bakwai daga wasansa na farko na 'yan takara a shekarar 1959, amma biyu ne kawai daga na biyu a Curaçao 1962. Dukkanin wasannin an buga su ne a karkashin yanayin gasar sai dai wasan sada zumunci a gidan Reuben Fine a 1963 da kuma nasara daga rangadin baje kolin Fischer na 1964 na Amurka.