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What Is Bobby Fischer Up To Now?!?

What Is Bobby Fischer Up To Now?!?

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/16/fischer.japan/index.html

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has been detained by immigration authorities in Japan.

Fischer, 61, is wanted in the United States for attending a 1992 chess match in Yugoslavia in violation of international sanctions.

He was stopped at Tokyo's Narita International Airport on Tuesday trying to leave Japan for the Philippines, an airport official said according to The Associated Press.

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Originally posted by turtlex

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/16/fischer.japan/index.html

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has been detained by immigration authorities in Japan.

Fischer, 61, is wanted in the United States for attending a 1992 chess match in Yugoslavia in violation of international sanctions.

He was stopped at Tokyo's Narita International Air ...[text shortened]... leave Japan for the Philippines, an airport official said according to The Associated Press.

Wanted for playing a game of chess?
A chess criminal??

hahahahaha

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Yeah, obviously they haven't seen me play or I'd be in the slammer right now!

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Apparently, and I'm speculating here without reading the article, Japan and the US have a pretty tight extradition treaty. I know Fischer is still wanted by the US for , yes that's right, playing a game of chess. The warrant was actually signed by then President Bush Sr.

In hindsight all of that seems kinda silly now. With all of the problems in the world only the US would have the resources to track down a renegade chess player.

I guess we'll all see if Mr. Fischer gets a return trip back to his homeland? I suspect he's in route right now.

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Originally posted by wib
Apparently, and I'm speculating here without reading the article, Japan and the US have a pretty tight extradition treaty. I know Fischer is still wanted by the US for , yes that's right, playing a game of chess. The warrant was actually signed by then President Bush Sr.

In hindsight all of that seems kinda silly now. With all of the problems in the wor ...[text shortened]... Mr. Fischer gets a return trip back to his homeland? I suspect he's in route right now.


Good guess, that's pretty much what the article says.

Any predictions what the outcome will be? Will they really put him in jail? What's the sentancing like for something like this?

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Originally posted by wib
Apparently, and I'm speculating here without reading the article, Japan and the US have a pretty tight extradition treaty. I know Fischer is still wanted by the US for , yes that's right, playing a game of chess. The warrant was actually signed by then President Bush Sr.

In hindsight all of that seems kinda silly now. With all of the problems in the wor ...[text shortened]... Mr. Fischer gets a return trip back to his homeland? I suspect he's in route right now.

So the yanks can find Bobby Fischer, but not Iraq's WMD - no wonder people smile when the phrase "American Intelligence" pops into news reports

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Pretty curious,yesterday I was reading an article about Fischer's reappearance on ICC as a ghost user.
Fischer can't return to the States because in 1992 he played the famous rematch against Spassky in Yugoslavia,and at the time there was an embargo of the U.S. for the war in the balcans countries:fischer was warned that if he'd return to his mother country he would be charged of violating the embargo.
Of course he didn't want this,so exiliated himself in the Philippines and in Japan.
The article I was reading was written 2 years ago by Nigel Short,who says that he played and got slaughtered several times(N.S. is one of the best blitz chess players worldwide,he got 6:6 with Kasparov) by a misterious player on ICC.
Well,during the chat the misterious user was asked if he knows a less known mexican player,and answered that he played him in Siegen 1970,making think to Short that he was really playing the great Fischer................

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=11

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Originally posted by claretnblue
So the yanks can find Bobby Fischer, but not Iraq's WMD - no wonder people smile when the phrase "American Intelligence" pops into news reports


Well, actually, the Japanese found him.

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Originally posted by Ravello
Pretty curious,yesterday I was reading an article about Fischer's reappearance on ICC as a ghost user.
Fischer can't return to the States because in 1992 he played the famous rematch against Spassky in Yugoslavia,and at the time there wa ...[text shortened]... Short that he was really playing the great Fischer................
No it wasn't Fischer who brutally whipped Nigel Short, it was myself.
I am the mystery ghost surfer -
I died, a long long time ago

I laughed and shook his hand, and made my way back home
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here
We must have died along, a long long time ago

Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World

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Originally posted by turtlex


Well, actually, the Japanese found him.
Then give them buckets and spades and move them to the Iraq desert then.
Claret .W. blue

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I'm not sure what the sentence would be for something like that. It really seems so small now and so long ago. I remember at the time though it was a huge deal.

I imagine it'll bring a lot of publicity to chess again though. That's one thing Fischer has always been good at. Whether he wanted it or not.

If Fischer wasn't such a loony bird he could make a fortune off of something like this in America. Book deals, talk show circuit, he might he even get his own show. The guy has played one public chess match (that I know of?) in the last 30 years and he can still generate as much publicity as any chess player that's ever played. Too bad he's so wacky and seemingly full of hate now.

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Originally posted by wib
Too bad he's so wacky and seemingly full of hate now.

Makes him an ideal candidate for RHP, he wouldn't even need to use software to reach the top 20, now that's evil

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Well, I know one thing, if Bush Jr is president when he comes back to America, Fischers screwed. His daddy made Fischer a wanted man.

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From what I've read... Says old Bobby is going to "appeal".

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Originally posted by Alpha10
Well, I know one thing, if Bush Jr is president when he comes back to America, Fischers screwed. His daddy made Fischer a wanted man.
If I had been president back then, I would have made him a wanted man as well. Fischer shouldn't get a "bye" just because he's a famous chess player. He broke the law. He should share a cell with Martha Stewart.

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