There are seven games from his first Candidates tournament in 1959, but only two from his second at Curaçao 1962.
Among the wins are his first defeat of a Soviet grandmaster, Paul Keres at Zurich 1959, and his 21-move victory as Black over Robert Byrne at the 1963/64 US Championship. This is one of the few examples of Fischer's analysis being questioned. Botvinnik later disputed this, with a refutation from one of his chess school pupils, 13-year-old Garry Kasparov. This game contains the longest piece of analysis in the book, with Fischer concluding that he missed a win in the endgame.
Among the draws is his only encounter with World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, at the 1962 Varna Olympiad. The three losses are to Tal at the Candidates Tournament 1959, Spassky at Mar del Plata 1960, and Geller at Skopje 1967. The collection begins in 1957, omitting the famous " Game of the Century" against Donald Byrne in 1956 (this game had been included in a small, lightly annotated work called Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess, published in 1959). Fischer continued to revise the manuscript and added eight more games, also changing the title to My Memorable Games – 60 Tournament Struggles before settling on the final name. His friend and colleague Grandmaster Larry Evans, who helped in an editorial capacity and also wrote introductions to all the games, has said this was because Fischer felt philosophically that "the world was coming to an end anyway" (he thought that the Rapture was coming soon ) and he might as well make some money. In 1968 he changed his mind and decided to go ahead with publication. It was suggested that he did not want to reveal all his secrets, as the book has lengthy annotations and analysis of different possible variations of his games. ) At that point the collection ended at the Piatigorsky Cup in 1966 however, Fischer then had an abrupt change of heart and decided not to publish the book at all, and asked to be released from his contract. (At one time it was also titled My Life in Chess: 52 Memorable Games. Fischer then added more games, and retitled it My Memorable Games – 52 Tournament Games. Fischer first announced it would appear "after my match with Botvinnik" (then World Champion), an event first suggested for 1962 and again in the mid 1960s but which never took place. Its first title was to be Bobby Fischer's Best Games of Chess.
The book had been planned for some time, to be published by Simon & Schuster. In 2008 a reissue of Fischer's original text was published, the only changes being the updating to algebraic notation and the correcting of typographical errors, notation mistakes, and the erroneous last few moves of game 17. An algebraic notation version in 1995 caused some controversy in the chess world because of the many other changes made to the text, with Fischer himself denouncing the edition. The book was originally published in descriptive notation. It has been described as a "classic of objective and painstaking analysis" and is regarded as one of the great pieces of chess literature. Unlike many players' anthologies, which are often titled My Best Games and include only victories, My 60 Memorable Games includes nine draws and three losses. It is a collection of his games dating from the 1957 New Jersey Open to the 1967 Sousse Interzonal. My 60 Memorable Games is a chess book by Bobby Fischer, first published in 1969. The 1969 Simon & Schuster edition of My 60 Memorable Games
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