Bobby Fischer hangs on in Japan
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Bobby Fischer remains in Japan Tuesday night thanks to a last-minute appeal by his lawyers against a deportation order issued just hours earlier.
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Japan has ordered the deportation of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, after rejecting his demand for protection as a political refugee.
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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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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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Chess master Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players in history, has died, a spokesman for the World Chess Federation confirmed to CNN Friday. 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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A Tokyo court on Friday rejected a  request by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to have  Japanese authorities halt procedures to deport him, Kyodo news  agency reported.
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Ex-world chess champion Bobby Fischer wants to see a US consular officer, the State Department said after the Japanese government rejected his request for political asylum and told him he would be deported.
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Supporters of former chess champion Bobby Fischer are hailing Iceland&#39;s decision to grant the American residency. Mr Fischer has been detained in Japan since July, when he tried to travel overseas with a revoked United States passport.
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A Japanese chess great who plans to marry  former world champion Bobby Fischer and help him avoid  deportation home to the United States declared herself on  Thursday to be a pawn seeking to become a queen.
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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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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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Japan has rejected former world chess champion Bobby Fischer&#39;s demand for protection as a political refugee, and has issued an order to deport him.
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TOKYO - Iceland has offered a residency visa to Bobby Fischer, but the former US chess champion faces obstacles to get there because he remains in jail in Japan under an American deportation order.
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Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.
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Fischer has been in custody since he was detained by Japanese airport authorities on July 13 with an invalid American passport. He is wanted in the US for violating international sanctions against the former Yugoslavia in 1992.
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WASHINGTON: Bobby Fischer&#39;s plan to renounce his US citizenship and wed a Japanese chess official would not save him from prosecution, the US State Department said yesterday.