Iceland offers Bobby Fischer visa
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Iceland grants residence to former chess champion Bobby Fischer, as he fights extradition to the US.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess genius who careened during his life from Cold War hero to eccentric international exile, died Thursday in Iceland, where he has lived since 2005. He was 64.
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It may be hard for some to understand why Iceland would offer a residency permit to Bobby Fischer, the surly former chess champion now detained in Japan and wanted in the United States.
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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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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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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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American chess champion Bobby Fischer should be freed immediately and allowed to leave Japan for Iceland rather than face deportation to the United States, his supporters said in a court filing Wednesday.
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TOKYO -- Former chess champion Bobby Fischer announced plans yesterday to marry a leading Japanese chess official and appealed to Secretary of State Colin Powell to help him renounce US citizenship, the latest in a series of moves as he seeks to block attempts to deport him to the United States.
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Chess legend Bobby Fischer, who died in Iceland last week aged 64, was buried on Monday in a private ceremony near the city that hosted his famous victory over the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky 35 years ago.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer  has appealed after a Tokyo court rejected his bid to halt  deportation procedures from Japan, a fate he is also trying to  escape by the more romantic move of wedding a Japan chess  great.
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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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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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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.
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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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Bobby Fischer had hoped to play current world chess champion Viswanathan Anand or former great Garry Kasparov in a tournament before his death, an Icelandic newspaper reported Saturday.
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Japan issued a deportation order on  Tuesday against former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who  is wanted in the United States for defying sanctions, but his  lawyer immediately filed an appeal, blocking the move.