Bobby fischer arrested!!

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=179 2

<font color="0000ff">From the Post...

It was not immediately clear if Fischer would be extradited to the United States, where he is wanted for playing a 1992 chess match in the former Yugoslavia in violation of international sanctions. Japan and the United States have an extradition treaty.

But Fischer's detention - and a possible handover to U.S. authorities - gives Japan a chance to show it is cooperating with the United States just days before Japanese officials plan to bring an accused U.S. Army deserter, Charles Robert Jenkins, to Tokyo for urgent medical treatment.

Jenkins, whose Japanese wife was kidnapped by North Korea in 1978 and returned home in 2002, is wanted by Washington on desertion charges for allegedly defecting to North Korea in 1965. Jenkins is suffering from problems following abdominal surgery in North Korea.

Miyoko Watai, a longtime friend of Fischer's, told The Associated Press she had talked to him in custody. She said he was told he would be deported, but was planning to appeal.

"He didn't know that his passport had been revoked," said Watai, a member of the Japan Chess Association. "He had been traveling frequently over the past 10 years, and there was never a problem. I don't understand why his passport was revoked all of a sudden."



Looks like he just became a pawn to the paladin</font>

That's just silly -
Let the man play chess!
reclusive weirdbody that he is . . .
I wish him all the luck,
but he probably knew it was only a matter
of time until he was forced
back into the game.



soliver

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First Mig's Daily Dirt ran a report from Fischer's own bizarre website (be warned, offensive content). It contains a short report saying that Fischer "has been viciously attacked brutalized seriously injured and very nearly killed when he was illegally detained and arrested by the Japanese immigration authorities at Narita international airport in Tokyo Japan." The site also says Fischer "urgently requests at immediate offer of political asylum from a friendly third country".<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

So the other day I'm looking about Japan, and I find out they have a 98% conviction rate, along with an astronomically high level of abuse and torture by police.

man i think thats bullshit. why dont they go arrest people who r causing real problems? well i wish the best of luck to him.

One of my favorite chess books(now lost) is one by bobby. He replays games between masters, and gives a comment after each move. I used to set up my board, then follow along, moving the pieces as each move is described. Great book. Any chess players here? I'd love to meet the members in yahoo or msn for a game or two.

[shroomzhilla]

all I know from my brief stay in japan is that, if your not japanese your automatically at fault, just for being there. they have a very complicated society and its been that way for centuries.

I play chess. Im not all that good but I win more than I lose. I'd be up for a game if I could find the time.