Posted on 08/16/2004 1:00:15 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
TOKYO (AP) - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer faxed a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and the U.S. Embassy in Japan on Monday demanding that a consular official accept his renunciation of U.S. citizenship, his Japanese lawyer said.
Fischer, wanted in the United States on charges of violating international sanctions on the former Yugoslavia by playing a match there, also plans to marry the president of Japan's chess association, Fischer lawyer Masako Suzuki said.
Fischer has been held in Japan since last month for trying to travel on a revoked U.S. passport, and has appealed a deportation order to the United States. It was not immediately clear whether marriage to a Japanese citizen would complicate deportation proceedings.
In the letter to Powell, Suzuki accused U.S. Embassy officials of refusing to send an official to Fischer's detention center to accept his renunciation of U.S. citizenship. Instead, she said, they have required him to appear at the U.S. Embassy.
A separate statement from Suzuki also said Fischer and Japan Chess Association President Miyoko Watai had signed marriage papers that would be submitted later on Monday.
AP-ES-08-16-04 0316EDT
Thpwat.
She's just a Pawn in this game.
I prefer mint sauce myself. But to each his own.
I would respect him more if he came home and behaved like a man. Instead HE chose to run. HE knew what he was doing and made his own choices. Then when there are consequences he runs like a wimp. No guts no glory.
It's the jooz.
Ditto - the guy's off his rocker with classical sypmtoms of serious mental disorder - see other posts about him. A few more observations I gathered from www.chessbase.com:
Spassky has made an appeal to the US to leave him alone, or also imprison him with Bobby and give them a chess board. (This I think is a bit sensational, but shows support, while acknowledging Bobby is his own worst enemy).
I also think he has a wife and a kid in the Philipines, and this new marriage idea is merely a legal ploy that probably won't work.
Lastly, he has denounced his US citizenship, but has had trouble getting it done legit, and it too will probably not matter legally.
BTW, I'm a statistician, and sadly can identify with your signature - such a good discipline in theory, but enough bogus misuse to make it disreputable. I'm 95% confident about that.
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