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<font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">ABOARD SAS FLIGHT SK984 (AP)
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3>
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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.
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">"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. </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">"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." </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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.
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">"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." </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">"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."
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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.
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">Fischer denied he had
been carrying an invalid passport in Japan and called Koizumi "a
stooge." </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">"It's just my
misfortune that this criminal idiot Koizumi ... (is) willing to do
anything Bush tells him," said Fischer. </font><font size=3>
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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.
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">"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</font><font size=3> <br>
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<font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099"><b>Robert James Fischer's
Biography</b></font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">11th World Champion,
1972 - 1975</font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3>
<br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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. </font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#000099">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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