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Title: Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fisher Dies at 64 in Iceland
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URL Source: http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Ches ... es_at_64_in_Iceland_12985.html
Published: Jan 18, 2008
Author: Dee Chisamera
Post Date: 2008-01-19 05:55:31 by wudidiz
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Comments: 9
The former world chess champion was pronounced dead on Thursday, at a Reykjavik hospital, but no further details have been released to the press. Fisher was the first and only U.S.-born champion, in a sport where the Soviets always had the lead. “It’s really the free world against the lying, cheating, hypocritical Russians,” he used to say. He managed to hold the 20 consecutive tournament victories record up to this date, and won a memorable victory against Spassy in 1972. He won the U.S Champion title at only 14, and at 15 he became a Grandmaster. His career went into a cone of shadow a few years after the great match against Spassy, and came back into the spotlight when he chose to do a rematch against Spassy despite the U.S. sanctions. The United States authorities got a hold of Fisher in 2004, when he was detained Narita International Airport in Narita, Japan for using a revoked U.S. passport while on his way to Manila, Philippines. Fisher claimed he had no idea the passport lost its validity, as he had never been notified of such thing. However, U.S. passports can be revoked without preliminary notifications. Fisher chose to live his last years in Iceland, giving up the U.S. citizenship and permanently establishing in Iceland, in order to avoid deportation back to the United States. The American government also issued a tax evasion charges against him, but the run was finally over for the Grandmaster champion, as he found his rest in a new land. Poster Comment: I saw it was posted yesterday, but thought it was worth posting again.
The U.S. chess Grandmaster Bobby Fisher died at age 64 of an unknown illness, the national radio station in Iceland reported on Friday. Fisher moved to Iceland in 2005 and later obtained his citizenship, after the U.S. authorities pursued in arresting him mainly for violating President George H. W. Bush’s executive order in 1992 of not engaging in economic activities with Yugoslavia (Fisher chose to play against Spassky, despite the order).
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#1. To: angle, robin, TwentyTwelve, Original_Intent, Critter, christine, buckeye, scrapper2, FormerLurker, Ferret Mike, Artisan, _______, Uncle Bill, ALL (#0)
Good for him!
In an interview he apparently gave a Filipino radio station just after the September 11th attacks, he states that all European Americans should be sent back to Europe and it should be returned to the American Indians, that Indians had kept the North American continent "pristine," and Europeans had destroyed it. I hope the guy has found peace. In life, he wasn't going to find it thinking along those lines.
He obviously didn't study much archeology.
He admits that he didn't study American history because he thought there was something wrong with it without even having to think about it.
Well I still admire his ability to stand by his beliefs. Wish we had more like that. Maybe we wouldn't be in such a mess.
Belief in self-destructive irrationalism is hardly admirable in my book. But I think his right to pursue happiness, maintain possession of his property, and his freedom of speech were suppressed. I defend his right to say these kinds of things, and to travel where he needed to go to pursue his game, and to maintain control over his own intellectual property. I can sympathize with his frustrations.
That wasn't the part I was admiring. His fighting that was.
Similar thoughts over here.
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy
so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” ~ J. Edgar Hoover 
#2. To: wudidiz (#0)
Fisher moved to Iceland in 2005 and later obtained his citizenship, after the U.S. authorities pursued in arresting him mainly for violating President George H. W. Bush’s executive order in 1992 of not engaging in economic activities with Yugoslavia (Fisher chose to play against Spassky, despite the order).
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
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#4. To: buckeye (#3)
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#5. To: farmfriend (#4)
#6. To: buckeye (#5)
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#7. To: farmfriend (#6)
#8. To: buckeye (#7)
Belief in self-destructive irrationalism is hardly admirable in my book.
But I think his right to pursue happiness, maintain possession of his property, and his freedom of speech were suppressed.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#9. To: farmfriend (#8)
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