[News] Bobby Fischer on the US and Israel

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ABOARD SAS FLIGHT SK984 (AP) -  Fischer Sitting in the first-class cabin 
whisking him away from nine months detention in Japan, chess icon Bobby 
Fischer 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 to a comic book character.

Fischer said he was "kidnapped" in Japan, and that Bush and Japanese Prime 
Minister Junichiro Koizumi were in cahoots trying to deprive him of freedom 
and return him to the United States, where he is wanted on criminal charges.

"Bush does not respect law," Fischer said in an interview with Associated 
Press Television News on board the SAS flight to Copenhagen, Denmark, where 
he had a stopover before being flown to Iceland, which this week granted 
him citizenship.

"It's like in the comics, like Billy Batson used to say 'Shazam!' and he 
becomes Captain Marvel. He (Bush) just says 'Enemy Combatant! Now you have 
no legal rights.' It's a farce," he said. "This is absolutely cooked up 
between Bush and Koizumi."

Fischer, wide-eyed and bushy-bearded after his months in detention, paused 
frequently to collect his thoughts. Wisps of hair were matted against his 
temples, and he once gulped deeply from a glass of milky liqueur before 
explaining why he felt his detention in Japan for using an invalid U.S. 
passport was illegal.

The eccentric chess genius was unusually expansive on the flight, 
unleashing his anger against two of his favorite targets: The U.S. 
government and Israel. He disclosed a world view that has him as the 
underdog besieged by a bullying America.

"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 
actually a shame to be a so-called American because everybody living there 
is ... an invader."

He traced the origins of his troubled relationship with his homeland to his 
failed lawsuit in the 1970s against Time Inc., now Time-Warner, for 
defamation of character, breach of contract and other issues; a U.S. 
District Court threw it out as groundless.

"I got laughed out of court," he said. "This is when I began to realize 
what kind of a country America was then ... it's just a sham democracy. ... 
That's when I started to part company with the U.S."

Late Thursday, Fischer arrived in Iceland to accept an offer of citizenship 
from the country still grateful for its role as the site of his most famous 
match. In 1972 Fisher won his world championship victory over Russian Boris 
Spassky in the Cold War chess showdown that propelled Fischer to 
international stardom.

Fischer, 62, is wanted by the United States for violating sanctions imposed 
on the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match there against 
Spassky in 1992.

He was detained by Japanese officials last July for using an invalid U.S. 
passport. Fischer claims the travel document was revoked illegally, and 
sued to block a deportation order to the United States.

Iceland's Parliament stepped in this week to break the standoff by giving 
Fischer citizenship. But Fischer is by no means in the clear, as Iceland, 
like Japan, has an extradition treaty with the United States.

Fischer denied he had been carrying an invalid passport in Japan and called 
Koizumi "a stooge."

"It's just my misfortune that this criminal idiot Koizumi ... (is) willing 
to do anything Bush tells him," said Fischer.

Asked whether he thought he might find U.S. authorities more tolerant of 
him if he toned down his rhetoric, Fischer said he was too old to change.

"I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. I'm too old. It's too 
late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order," he said with 
a chuckle
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Robert James Fischer's Biography

11th World Champion, 1972 - 1975

Robert James Fischer is considered by many to be the greatest chess player 
of all time. He was born in Chicago, USA in 1943 and brought up in Brooklyn 
where his mother moved after she was divorced in 1945. He learned to play 
chess at the age of 6 and soon became deeply absorbed in the game saying 
"All I want to do, ever, is play chess." At the age of 13 he became the 
youngest national junior chess champion in the USA and at the age of 14 he 
became the youngest senior US Champion. In 1958, at the age of 15, he 
became the youngest Grandmaster in the history of chess.

He broke the Soviet domination of the World Championship when he became the 
first American to win the title by defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR in 
Reykjavik, Iceland in 1972. In 1975 FIDE refused to meet Fischer's 
conditions for a World Championship match with the Soviet Anatoly Karpov 
and Fischer refused to play. Consequently FIDE awarded the title of World 
Champion to Karpov. After this dispute Fischer vanished from public eye for 
twenty years and moved to Europe.

In 1996 Fischer launched a new game called "Fischerandom Chess" in which 
the major pieces on the back rank are randomly shuffled behind their pawns. 
Fischer maintained that this form of chess was a better test of a player's 
skill and got away from opening theory homework.
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