Bobby Fischer buried in Iceland
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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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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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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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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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Bobby Fischer, the reclusive 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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US chess genius Bobby Fischer asks Japan to let him travel to Iceland, where he has been granted residency.
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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 should receive the same Japanese government handling being received by Charles Jenkins, an American fugitive in Tokyo whose lavish treatment at taxpayer&#39;s expense starkly contrasts with conditions facing the incarcerated former chess world ...
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Iceland has rejected a U.S. request to drop the offer of a residency permit for former American chess champion Bobby Fischer, officials said Tuesday.
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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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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 ...
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On Friday, January 18, 2008, chess master Bobby Fischer died at age 64, the same number, CNN.com reader Susan Polgar points out, as the number of squares on a chessboard.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64, Icelandic media reports
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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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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died of a serious but unspecified illness, Iceland national radio reported on Friday.
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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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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland aged 64.