Iceland OKs Bobby Fischer residency permit
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Iceland has approved a residency permit for Bobby Fischer, embassy officials said Thursday, but the former chess champion faces hurdles in traveling there because he remains in Japanese custody and lacks a valid passport.
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Bobby Fischer, the eccentric genius who became America's only world chess champion by humbling the Soviet Union's best but who spent his last years as a fugitive from U.S. authorities, has died at 64.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion who was once dubbed the "Mozart of Chess", has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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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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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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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 demanded Friday that the Japanese government release him from immigration detention and allow him to travel to Iceland &quot;as soon as possible.
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Chess legend Bobby Fischer's life in Iceland was marked by both paranoid behaviour and quiet solitude, spending his days reading, fishing and devising new variations on the game he mastered, friends said.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland aged 64.
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Iceland is under U.S. pressure to drop plans to offer a home to fugitive former chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted for breaking sanctions against Yugoslavia in 1992, officials said Monday.
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Maverick US chess genius Bobby Fischer, who faces jail if he returns to his native country, has made a handwritten appeal to Japanese authorities from his detention cell to be allowed to move to Iceland, his lawyers said.
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In a bold gambit worthy of the chess  champion he once was, Bobby Fischer plans to wed a four-time  Japan great in the hope of avoiding deportation home to the  United States, where he is wanted for breaking sanctions.
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TOKYO Japan&#39;s main news agency reports a Tokyo court has dismissed a request to stop the deportation proceedings against fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer.
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German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has asked his Hungarian counterpart whether he could get a passport if Hungary votes to grant dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians in a referendum on December 5. ...
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TOKYO: Fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer, who is fighting deportation to the US, yesterday demanded that Japan allows him to go to Iceland, which has offered him a home.
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TOKYO - Lawyers representing former chess champion Bobby Fischer asked the Justice Ministry on Friday to free him from immigration detention and let him fly to Iceland.
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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.