Chess legend Fischer dies at 64
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died aged 64, Icelandic media report.
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The historic chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Soviet champion Boris Spassky was the Cold War played out with pawns instead of missiles, a combat of mind games between two masters at the height of their powers.
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TOKYO/REYKJAVIK  - Fugitive chess master Bobby  Fischer has been offered a new home in Iceland, where he won a  classic victory in 1972, but it is unclear whether he will be  able to make the move from his detention in Japan.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer won a major battle in his fight against deportation to the United States, as a court ruled Wednesday he can stay in Japan until his lawsuit against the deportation order has been heard, his supporters said.
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The legendary Russian prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova has died aged 66 after a long illness, the Bolshoi theatre where she made a brilliant career during the Soviet era announced on Tuesday.
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Japan has decided to deport former world  chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted in the United  States for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, an immigration  official said on Tuesday.
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Fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer, who is fighting deportation to the United States, on Friday asked Japan to allow him to go to Iceland, which has offered him a home.
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A terminally-ill Indian chess champion who has been the focus of a euthanasia debate, dies in hospital.
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TOKYO - Japan's Justice Ministry rejected former chess champion Bobby Fischer's demand for protection as a political refugee on Tuesday and issued an order to deport him.    Fischer, in custody since he was detained by Japanese airport authorities on July 13 with an invalid U.S...
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Japan has decided to deport former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted in the United States for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, an immigration official said on Tuesday.
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Mr. Fischer, one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, later lived under self-imposed exile.
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MOSCOW - A Russian man known as the "Chessboard Killer" because he wanted to commit a murder for each of the 64 squares on the chessboard was convicted yesterday of killing 48 people, most of them in a Moscow park.
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Golfing great Byron Nelson, who won   an unprecedented 11 successive PGA Tour events during 1945,   died on Tuesday at the age of 94.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer, facing deportation to the US, plans to marry a Japanese national.
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Reclusive chess genius Bobby Fischer was buried Monday in a private ceremony at a churchyard in southern Iceland, a television station reported.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died of a serious but unspecified illness, Iceland national radio reported on Friday.
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US chess legend Bobby Fischer is the latest in a string of problem migrants for Japan.