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One of the world's greatest chess geniuses, Bobby Fischer, has died at the age of 64. A spokesman for Fischer said the former world chess champion passed away in a Reykjavik hospital yesterday. The US-born former world chess champion, who became famous around the world for beating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972, had been seriously ill for some time. Rest in Peace, Bobby

Controversial former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died aged 64, Iceland's media says. The US-born player, who became famous around the world for beating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972, had been seriously ill for some time. Mr Fischer was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005 as a way to avoid being deported the US. Mr Fischer was wanted for breaking international sanctions by playing a match in the former Yugoslavia in 1992. He also had alienated many in his homeland by broadcasting anti-Semitic diatribes and expressing support for the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York. The reclusive...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland ( — Bobby Fischer, the brilliant, troubled former chess champion, has died, a spokesman said Friday. He was 64. Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said Fischer died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday. There was no immediate word on cause of death. U.S.-born Fischer, a fierce critic of his homeland who renounced his U.S. citizenship, moved to Iceland in 2005. He was world famous for defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972. The Chicago-born, Brooklyn, N.Y.-reared Fischer was wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Cold War rival Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of...

DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Bobby Fischer is still living the quiet life in Iceland, the home he adopted after being held in Japanese custody for nearly a year. He still refuses to play chess, at least the version that everybody else plays. And he's still a wanted man, as far as the U.S. government is concerned. Beyond that, there are many things the world may never know about the reclusive chess icon, and Miyoko Watai, Fischer's longtime companion, says she isn't going to break the silence. "I prefer not to talk about private things," said Watai, who is in Qatar...

Buchanan defends foreign aid – for Hamas-------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 1, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 Creators Syndicate Inc. Ever since President Bush, sometime after 9-11, converted to neoconservatism, his Middle East policy has suffered from the triple defects of that subspecies of the Right: hubris, ideology and immaturity. Neoconservatives see the world as they wish it to be, not as it is. Like teenagers, they act on impulse and rail against the counsel of experience. "Often clever, never wise," Russell Kirk said of the breed. Repeatedly, Bush was warned by traditional conservatives that to send a U.S. army to...

SAN DIEGO – Bobby Fischer has dropped a federal lawsuit against the U.S. government over what the former chess champion called his illegal nine-month detention in Japan. The lawsuit was filed March 23, the same day Fischer was released from a Japanese detention center and took up residence in Iceland. The case was voluntarily dismissed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Diego. "He wants to get on with his life," Richard J. Vattuone, the attorney who filed the lawsuit told The San Diego Union-Tribune in Tuesday's editions. "He's not interested in any more lawsuits, so that matter is over,...

Mar 27, 2005 Bobby Fischer Latest in a Line of Individualist Immigrants to Iceland By Jill Lawless Associated Press Writer REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) - New Icelandic citizen Bobby Fischer is volatile, uncompromising and defiantly eccentric. He should fit right in. Tiny, wind-lashed Iceland has long drawn artists, loners and dreamers attracted by its remoteness, empty spaces and otherworldly, lava-strewn landscape - the very conditions that kept most migrants away and helped forge the proud, independent Icelandic character. "What was it Buzz Aldrin said about the moon? 'Magnificent desolation' - that's Iceland," said Jose Tirado, a U.S.-born Buddhist priest who has...

"Let Iceland keep the sociopath" The United States has declared war on countries as varied as Albania and Canada. Well, not in real life, but in the movies. Maybe it's time to set our sights on Iceland. Not in real life — at least not yet. What has Iceland done to offend this country so grievously? It conferred citizenship on chess savant Bobby Fischer. That in itself may not seem like a big deal to people who only remember Fischer as the grandmaster who put the United States on the chess map by defeating Russian Boris Spassky for the world...

Bobby Fischer, so-called "chess master" best known for defeating the Soviet Boris Spassky in a chess match 33 years ago in Iceland, has finally been given citizenship by that country and was flown there yesterday from Japan. Fischer is wanted by the United States government for defying a warning not to play a chess match in Yugoslavia, which at the time had sanctions placed on it. He did it anyway, and he's been on the run ever since. For some reason, Fischer decided it would be a good idea to travel to Japan on an invalid U.S. passport. He was...

ABOARD SAS FLIGHT SK984 — Sitting in the first-class cabin whisking him away from nine months detention in Japan, chess icon Bobby Fischer (search) on Thursday launched a rambling diatribe against the United States, calling it "an illegitimate country" that should be given back to the American Indians. The reclusive Fischer — who is taking up residence in Iceland to avoid arrest in the United States — also unleashed his anger at Israel and likened President Bush (search) to a comic book character. Fischer said he was "kidnapped" in Japan, and that Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (search)...

Chess legend Bobby Fischer arrived in Iceland on Thursday, hoping to avoid deportation to the United States by accepting an offer of citizenship from a country still grateful for its role as the site of his most famous match. [. . .] In the interview, he unleashed an angry diatribe against the United States. "The United States is an illegitimate country...just like the bandit state of Israel - the Jews have no right to be there, it belongs to the Palestinians," said Fischer, whose mother was Jewish. "That country, the United States, belongs to the red man, the American Indian...It's...

ALARM - Bobby Fischer leaves Japan for Iceland TOKYO - the ex-champion of the American world of failures Bobby Fischer, held in Japan for eight month, flew away airport of Tokyo-Narita Thursday at the beginning of afternoon for Iceland, from which it obtained nationality, one learned near the airport authorities.

After nearly nine months of detention in an immigration facility north of Tokyo, chess legend Bobby Fischer appeared to have cleared the final hurdle Tuesday on his way to freedom. News photo Bobby Fischer In a major breakthrough for Fischer, who is being held for allegedly traveling on a revoked U.S. passport, Iceland's Parliament on Monday granted the former world champion and notorious eccentric full citizenship, opening the way for him to leave Japan for that country. "If he has (Icelandic) citizenship, I understand it is legally possible for him to leave Japan, and in the event of that situation,...

The United States demanded Tuesday that Japan hand over Bobby Fischer despite Iceland's move to accept the chess legend currently detained by Japanese immigration authorities since last July. "That's what we've asked for," Adam Ereli, deputy spokesman for the U.S. State Department, told reporters, when asked if the United States wants Japan to hand him over to the United States. Ereli expressed "disappointment" about the Icelandic parliament's decision Monday to grant citizenship to Fischer, 62. "It's an arrangement that we're disappointed by. Mr. Fischer is a fugitive from justice. There is a federal warrant for his arrest. He's being...

BOBBY FISCHER, the former world chess champion incarcerated for the past nine months, may be freed this week after a diplomatic confrontation between Japan and Iceland. President Grimsson of Iceland is expected to sign into law today a Bill granting citizenship to Mr Fischer. It represents the culmination of an extraordinary campaign by Reykjavik to save Mr Fischer from deportation to the United States where he faces criminal prosecution. John Bosnitch, head of the Tokyo-based Committee to Free Bobby Fischer, said: “The Icelandic parliament, the Althingi, has . . . made history by standing up to the Earth’s sole superpower...

TOKYO, Japan -- Supporters of chess star Bobby Fischer prepared Tuesday for his release from Japanese custody after Iceland granted him citizenship overnight, boosting his chances of avoiding deportation to the United States. Miyoko Watai, Fischer's Japanese fiancee, was en route to the detention center outside Tokyo where he has been held to have his release papers signed, while his lawyer, Masako Suzuki, contacted the Justice Ministry to request his immediate release, said John Bosnitch, chairman of the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer in Japan. Japanese ministry and detention center officials declined to comment early Tuesday, and it was not...

Iceland to grant ex-chess champ Fischer citizenship Iceland's Parliament says it will grant fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer citizenship to allow him to travel to Reykjavik from Japan, where he is in detention fighting a US deportation order.The 62-year-old American is wanted in the United States for violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there in 1992.He was arrested in Japan last July for travelling on an invalid US passport.Chess fans in Iceland, where Fischer won the world title in 1972 in a classic Cold War encounter with Soviet champion Boris Spassky, offered him a...

HE was a master of strategy when it came to chess, but Bobby Fischer is being outplayed by the IRS. The former world champ, now a tax fugitive given to anti-American, anti-Semitic ravings, is spending his days in the East Japan Immigration Bureau Detention Center while he awaits extradition to the U.S. Fischer is waiting for an Icelandic passport, which would afford him sanctuary in Reykjavik. But Chesscafe.com reports Brooklyn-born Fischer, who hasn't filed tax forms since 1976, will lose his fortune regardless. "He can be tried in absentia and, with a series of computer key strokes, that juicy UBS...