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The first American ever to become world chess champion, Bobby Fischer was as famous for his ... Fischer was arrested at Tokyo's Narita Airport on a charge of trying to leave Japan ...
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By now Bobby Fischer has sat in jail in Japan for six months over an invalid passport. He is allowed to go outdoors for 45 minutes a day, five days a week.
http://www.chessville.com/News/FischerFreedomWatch.htm

USATODAY.com Latest News ... Chess legend Bobby Fischer shouldn't be exempted from Japan's rule that foreigners who are ordered deported must be sent to their homeland, Japan's top ...
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On April 15, 2004 Bobby Fischer flew to Japan. He cleared Japanese immigration at the time. On July 13, 2004 at about 5:30 pm, the Japanese immigration authorities at Narita ...
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Bobby Fischer leaves detention centre for 'homecoming' in Reykjavik. ... I was kidnapped,' says chess genius as he rails against Japan and US Bobby Fischer leaves detention centre ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/mar/25/justinmccurry.stephenmoss

News about Bobby Fischer. Commentary and archival information about Bobby Fischer from The New York Times.
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Elusive ex-world chess champ Bobby Fischer is arrested in Japan, after 12 years on the run from the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3900205.stm

Others, however, insist that Fischer chose Japan for a different reason. "Bobby needs to be in a place away from the Jews," one woman says.
http://www.chessmaniac.com/Bobby_Fischer/Bobby_Fischer_Articles40.shtm

Former Chess Champion Bobby Fischer held in Japan. (F riday, July 16, 2004) http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/16/fischer.japan/index.html
http://www.chess-poster.com/great_players/fischer.htm

Bobby Fischer detained in Japan (updated) 16.07.2004 It's the latest twist in the sad tale of American former world champion Bobby Fischer.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4392

Home > Sports > Chess > AGENCIES > Report Bobby Fischer detained in Japan July 16, 2004 16:44 IST. Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer was detained in Japan by immigration ...
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Bobby Fischer , Chess Player Born: 9 March 1943 Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois Died: 17 ... Japan. Fischer lived for a time in Japan. Fischer was arrested at Narita International ...
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Dutch television reports . MEDIATHEEK - video - Interview met Fischer in het vliegtuig naar IJsland ; Bobby Fischer op het vliegveld in Japan ; Bobby Fischer is aangekomen in ...
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TOKYO (AFP) ? Japan rejected a request from former world chess champion Bobby Fischer for political asylum and said he would be deported, his supporters announced as they ...
http://www.mywire.com/a/AFP/Japan-rejects-Bobby-Fischers-asylum/548768?&pbl=273

Japan Detains Bobby Fischer NewsMax.com Wires Friday, July 16, 2004 TOKYO ? After decades of evading the public eye and U.S. justice officials, former world champion Bobby ...
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No legal ground to hold Bobby Fischer (will sue Japan if not released). Mainichi News, Mar 8, 2005 & Fischer 4 days in solitary confinement (provoked into fighting 15 guards).
http://www.orwelltoday.com/fischerbobby.shtml

I understand they're jealous. When leaving Japan for Iceland on March 23. 2005, Bobby Fischer was asked about his arrest in Japan. He responded:
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Chess legend Bobby Fischer, en route to a new life in Iceland, said Thursday that freedom felt great after nine months' detention in Japan, where he had been held for trying to ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-03-23-fischer-freed_x.htm

Accusing Japan and the U.S. of 'kidnapping' him, Bobby Fischer leaves Japanese detention centre Thursday to board a flight to Iceland.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/03/24/fischer-japan050324.html

Last week, the famously reclusive chess genius Bobby Fischer was released from detention in Japan and, clutching his new Icelandic passport, flew to Reykjavik, the scene of his ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/mar/28/chess.stephenmoss

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Japan issues a deportation order against former chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted by the US authorities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3594024.stm

play better chess by studying bobby fischer's games and his life. ... In 2004, Fischer was arrested at Japan's Narita airport for traveling on a revoked U.S. passport.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has told U.S. authorities he wants to renounce his American citizenship.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/06/fischer.japan/index.html

Japan Orders Bobby Fischer Deported ... TOKYO, Aug. 24 ? Japan ordered today that Bobby Fischer, the American chess master wanted in the United States for violating a trade ...
http://www.bobby-fischer.net/japan_orders_bobby_fischer_deported.htm

Japan Will Deport Bobby Fischer ... Bobby Fischer, seen here in 1971, was U.S. chess champion by the age of 14 but in recent years has made many bizarre remarks, including ...
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Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 ? January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess ... fleeing from the US, because he was afraid of being extradited". Japan. Fischer lived for ...
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has been detained in Japan by immigration authorities, an official said Friday. He is expected to fight any effort to deport him to the ...
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