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Search for Bobby Fischer Ends at Japanese Airport, With Fugitive Chess King Captured
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| July 16, 2004
Posted on 07/16/2004 1:51:45 PM PDT by nuconvert
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posted on
07/16/2004 1:51:45 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
I feel safer now, doncha?
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posted on
07/16/2004 1:53:08 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: nuconvert
Wanted at home for attending a 1992 match in Yugoslavia despite international sanctions
he went to a chess match that he wasn't supposed to? ... and what's with the Sept. 11 rant against America?
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posted on
07/16/2004 1:55:25 PM PDT
by
Bobby777
To: nuconvert
I read in the paper that the maximum penalty is 10 years in jail. I thought that was pretty stiff.
Then I read: "He praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying America should be "wiped out..."
I hope he gets the whole ten years. I wonder where he spent his millions in prize money?
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posted on
07/16/2004 1:56:38 PM PDT
by
geopyg
(Peace..................through decisive and ultimate VICTORY. (Democracy, whiskey, sexy))
To: nuconvert
How has he survived?
Did he pawn his trophies?
If so, was he rooked?
Does he still see things in black and white?
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posted on
07/16/2004 1:57:33 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedy family legacy - can't skipper a boat, can't fly, can't drive, can't ski)
To: nuconvert
Sounds like a slight case of mental illness to me...
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posted on
07/16/2004 1:57:53 PM PDT
by
Jalapeno
To: Jalapeno
He does have a checkered past.
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posted on
07/16/2004 1:58:33 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedy family legacy - can't skipper a boat, can't fly, can't drive, can't ski)
To: nuconvert
To: N. Theknow
"American officials had apparently been following his recent movements."
CHECKMATE
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posted on
07/16/2004 1:59:38 PM PDT
by
geopyg
(Peace..................through decisive and ultimate VICTORY. (Democracy, whiskey, sexy))
To: Jalapeno
Sounds like a slight case of mental illness to me...I first heard of Bobby Fischer's descent into mental illness over 20 years ago. There's nothing slight about it, I'm afraid.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:00:23 PM PDT
by
FormerLib
(Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
To: nuconvert
"Fischer "didn't know that his passport had been revoked," said Japan Chess Association member Miyoko Watai. "He had been traveling frequently over the past 10 years, and there was never a problem. I don't understand why his passport was revoked." US Passports are only good for 10 years. They must be renued then.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:01:19 PM PDT
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: nuconvert
I get it now:
Visiting Cuba - GOOD!
Visiting North Korea - GOOD!
Visiting Yugoslavia 12 years ago - BAD!!!
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:01:21 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: Jalapeno
ALL chess grandmasters are nuts.
Chess grandmasters think Fischer is stark raving looney toons. And the "KILL THE JEWS!!!!" thing makes it a singularly unpleasant kind of insanity.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:03:56 PM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: nuconvert
He [Fischer] praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying America should be "wiped out," and described Jews as "thieving, lying bastards." His mother was Jewish.If only Fischer were extradited to a nice, pleasant American State Prison, where he could be "check-mated" by angry, yet patriotic prisoners.
To: N. Theknow
It was a gambit getting on the plane.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:04:29 PM PDT
by
Jalapeno
To: FormerLib
I first heard of Bobby Fischer's descent into mental illness over 20 years ago. There's nothing slight about it, I'm afraid. If I recall correctly, he's also rabidly anti-semitic, and classicly paranoid schizophrenic.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:04:55 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Ichneumon; FormerLib
sounds like he has a defense for his crime and should be able to not do jail time.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:06:13 PM PDT
by
Jalapeno
To: nuconvert
A surprisingly large number of top-end chess masters have gone mad. I'm not sure what the connection is.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:06:41 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: N. Theknow
He claims to have over $300 million on deposit in Switzerland.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:06:41 PM PDT
by
sharktrager
(The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And the paving contractor lives in Chappaqua.)
To: Ichneumon
He is being treated as a pawn, and should be allowed to castle at this point. What a Rook-job!
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