Bobby Fischer (Chess Grandmaster) Arrested by the US! WTF is this world coming to!?
 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc...pan/index.html


TOKYO, Japan -- 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.

Friday's Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported that officials were preparing to deport Fischer to the United States.

The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said it was aware Fischer had been detained but declined to give any further details.

Fischer became a chess grandmaster at age 15 and was considered something of a Cold War hero when he outplayed Russian Boris Spassky to win the world title in 1972.

He was world champion until 1975 when he forfeited the title and withdrew from the tournament because conditions he demanded proved unacceptable to the International Chess Federation.

Since then, he virtually disappeared, living in secret outside the United States.

However he emerged in 1992 to play Spassky in a highly publicized match in Yugoslavia.

Fischer won that competition 10-5 and pocketed a prize of $3.35 million.

But the U.S. government accused him of violating U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia by playing the match there.

Those sanctions were in place for provoking warfare in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina.

yes, he played chess in a non approved country...
that's a pretty serious charge now....

"non approved country"

:321GFY

sad.

So, this is what happened:


He was born in the US

Moves out of the US

Attends a 1992 chess match in Yugoslavia

Gets Arrested in 2004 by the US for attending that match, and winning!!

playing chess in yugoslavia must be like a crime against humanity...

That's hilarious :1orglaugh

he has been charged with using the "four pawns attack"
poor bastard...thats a life sentence for sure...

I think he should just count him self lucky for not playing baseball over there, he'd probably get executed...

That's fucked up.

that is without a doubt the stupids fuckign arrest ive heard all year
the US laws suck ass big time

When are these heinous criminals going to learn that they can never escape american justice.

There is probably much more to this.
Bobby Fischer has been a neonazi, druguser and non-tax payer.

Japanese dont allow anybody with a history of drugs.

Bobby Fisher is no sweet cake...

what he said, remember how everyone here claims there is 3 sides to every story?:glugglug

yep:thumbsup

My mother always said, whatever you do don't EVER play chess in Yugoslavia.

but above all, Fischer is one of the greatest chess players ever :thumbsup

How mentally ill he is somehow didn't affect his play back in 1972, Reikjavik

Fischer is/was incredible. Stupid trade laws shouldn't apply to him. The U.S. violates its own trade laws all the time. The CIA imports drugs into the U.S. Who gives a fuck.

Free Bobby Fischer!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Doubt It.

Who hasn't done all of the above before?

Anyway, that's not what he was arrested for.

He was arrested and detained for ATTENDING A CHESS MATCH in 1992!

i'm sorry to all the americans for how embarrassed they must feel at the actions of their current administration. Frustration is probably setting in.

There will be a briefing from the whitehouse that says if you support chess you support terrorism:glugglug

Damn! Someone beat me to it this morning.

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disgusting.

that's just fucked up

I bought freebobby.com. Time for a quick buck! :)

releasebobbyfischer.com ?

I registered freefischer.com :glugglug

:1orglaugh

Good to know our tax dollars are going to catch real criminals out there.

it's sad but it is true.. dang

That's just plain fucked up.

He's a chess master, and he didn't see this coming?

What I dont get is if the article states he is 61, but won the Grand Master title at 15 in 1972, wouldnt that mean that 2004-1972 = 32 years + 15 years = 47 years?

So how is he 61?

:1orglaugh

WTF WHAT A FUCKED UP COUNTRY !

It does not say that...

Fischer became a chess grandmaster at age 15 and was considered something of a Cold War hero when he outplayed Russian Boris Spassky to win the world title in 1972.

So he was a chess grandmaster before he beat Spassky in 1972. And that figures...

:)

They lied about his age... during the cold war :Graucho

He's a "nazi." So they'd find a way to lock him up regardless.

The arcticle does not say that. They mention it and suggest it.
I would not be surprised if the Japanese contained him for previous drugsabuse.
According to Japanese law you can not enter the country then. Even if you have been clean for a long long time....

time for me to register freebobby.com :1orglaugh

You're forgetting the second most important part:

He was arrested in JAPAN on his way to Philippines.

This new patriot act is WAY too powerful. We are living in 1937 Nazi Germany. The new world order sucks balls.

The headline should have been: "Only in the USA". Just like that thread some other day ago with the pig & the tiger... This tiger is loose, police trying to find it, a lady comes with this pig trying to lure the tiger, police charges this "stupid woman" for put the pig's life in danger... Holy shit!

Remind me not to play chess ever again!

lmao :1orglaugh

thats fucked up :(