Iceland Offers Ex-Chess Champ Fischer Residency
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Chess master Bobby Fischer has been offered a new home in Iceland, but it&#39;s not clear if he&#39;ll be able to make the move from Japan, where he is being detained.
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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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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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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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Chess master Bobby Fischer has been  offered a new home in Iceland, but it's not clear if he'll be  able to make the move from Japan, where he is being detained.
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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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US-born chess legend Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland at the age of 64, his close friend Gardar Sverrisson told AFP on Friday.
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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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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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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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Joschka Fischer, who took a stand against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq while serving as Germany&#039;s foreign minister, said goodbye to politics Tuesday to spend a year lecturing at Princeton University.
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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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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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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 chess genius who careened during his life from Cold War hero to eccentric international exile, died Thursday at his home in Iceland. He was 64.
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Japan issued a deportation order today 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.
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Iceland is ready to provide a residence permit to worldâs chess ex-champion Bobby Fischer whoâs now serving his sentence in one of the Japanese jails.