Bobby Fischer checkmated at 64
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Eccentric grandmaster dies in Reykjavik Former US citizen and chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer died yesterday in a Reykjavik hospital aged 64, the Evening Standard reports. The cause of his death is not known, but he'd been ill for some time.â¦
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THE woman marrying Bobby Fischer, the chess legend threatened with deportation to the United States, reacted with shock yesterday to the news that he already has a common-law wife and a four-year-old daughter in the Philippines.
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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 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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US chess genius Bobby Fischer asks Japan to let him travel to Iceland, where he has been granted residency.
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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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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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TOKYO, Aug. 17.  The Japanese fiancee of former chess champion Bobby Fischer today said their love is genuine, even though the announcement of their plan to marry came amid Fischer&#39;s moves to avoid deportation to the USA.
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DOHA, Qatar -- Bobby Fischer is still living the quiet life in Iceland, the home he adopted after being held in Japanese custody for nearly a year.
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Bobby Fischer, the most powerful American chess player in history, died on Thursday in a hospital in Iceland. No cause of death was given.
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Japan issues a deportation order against former chess champion Bobby Fischer.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer, facing deportation to the US, plans to marry a Japanese national.
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TOKYO, Japan -- The Japanese woman who plans to marry former world chess champion Bobby Fischer says their feelings are genuine.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer has been sitting in detention in Japan for half a year, fighting deportation orders and fleeing criminal charges in the United States.
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Birgit Fischer settled for silver, leaving the 42-year-old Olympian with two medals in two days against decidedly younger competition.
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TOKYO - Miyoko Watai, the fiancee of Bobby Fischer, the imprisoned American chess master, admitted yesterday that Fischer might be using her in an effort to counter his detention by Japanese immigration authorities.
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Mr. Fischer, one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, later lived under self-imposed exile.