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Bobby Fischer may seek German passport

29.07.2004 - 10:30
By Linda Sieg

TOKYO (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer might seek a
German passport to avoid deportation to the United States, where he's
wanted for defying sanctions by playing a match in Yugoslavia in 1992,
supporters say.

Fischer, 61, was detained at Tokyo's Narita airport earlier this month
when he tried to leave for the Philippines on a passport U.S. officials
have said was invalid.

Japanese immigration officials earlier this week rejected Fischer's
appeal of a decision to deport him, said John Bosnitch, a Canadian
communications consultant and journalist advising him.

Fischer now has until midnight on Friday to appeal that decision to
Japan's justice minister and may also seek a court injunction to halt
deportation, Bosnitch said.

Fischer, one of the great eccentrics of the chess world, has been wanted
for arrest in the United States since 1992 when he won a match against
his old rival, Boris Spassky, in Yugoslavia.

That brought him into conflict with the U.S. authorities, since economic
sanctions against Yugoslavia were in force then.

Fischer, who arrived in Japan in April, maintains his passport was never
properly revoked, Bosnitch said.

Bosnitch offered to advise Fischer after he heard that his "boyhood
hero" had been detained.

Fischer's supporters are in touch with several countries about obtaining
travel documents so Fischer can avoid deportation to the United States,
where he could face a fine or imprisonment, Bosnitch said.

He added that Germany was one possibility since Fischer's father was a
German citizen.

NOT NECESSARILY ELIGIBLE

A spokesman for the German embassy in Tokyo said, however, that neither
Fischer nor any proxy had applied for a passport, nor was it certain he
would qualify for German citizenship.

"We do not know whether he has any claim to German citizenship," the
spokesman said.

"We doubt he actually will establish contact. Nothing he has said or
done in the past would suggest that course," he added.

Bosnitch also said on Thursday that there had been no response yet to a
request by Fischer for provisional release.

A former Japanese lawmaker, Ichiji Ishii, told the same news conference
he was prepared to act as Fischer's guarantor if he were released while
his appeal continued.

"As a person who likes chess ... and a friend of Bobby Fischer, I'm
going to guarantee his presence in Japan," he said.

Fischer has long been surrounded by controversy.

He won the world chess title in 1972, beating Spassky of the Soviet
Union in Reykjavik, Iceland, in
a victory seen as something of a Cold War propaganda coup for the United
States.

He then lost the title in 1975 after his conditions for a match against
Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union, were rejected by chess
officials. Karpov became champion by default.

Fischer disappeared until the 1992 match against Spassky, whom he again
defeated, taking $3 million in prize money.

He then disappeared again, resurfacing after the September 11, 2001
attacks on the United States to give an interview to Philippines radio
praising the strikes.

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--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)

I wonder how the issue Hans Gerhard actually not being fischer's
father will play into this. but i guess Hans was Fischers _legal_
father regardless.

In article , banana wrote:
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Bobby Fischer may seek German passport

29.07.2004 - 10:30
By Linda Sieg

TOKYO (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer might seek a
German passport to avoid deportation to the United States, where he's
wanted for defying sanctions by playing a match in Yugoslavia in 1992,
supporters say.

Fischer, 61, was detained at Tokyo's Narita airport earlier this month
when he tried to leave for the Philippines on a passport U.S. officials
have said was invalid.

Japanese immigration officials earlier this week rejected Fischer's
appeal of a decision to deport him, said John Bosnitch, a Canadian
communications consultant and journalist advising him.

Fischer now has until midnight on Friday to appeal that decision to
Japan's justice minister and may also seek a court injunction to halt
deportation, Bosnitch said.

Fischer, one of the great eccentrics of the chess world, has been wanted
for arrest in the United States since 1992 when he won a match against
his old rival, Boris Spassky, in Yugoslavia.

That brought him into conflict with the U.S. authorities, since economic
sanctions against Yugoslavia were in force then.

Fischer, who arrived in Japan in April, maintains his passport was never
properly revoked, Bosnitch said.

Bosnitch offered to advise Fischer after he heard that his "boyhood
hero" had been detained.

Fischer's supporters are in touch with several countries about obtaining
travel documents so Fischer can avoid deportation to the United States,
where he could face a fine or imprisonment, Bosnitch said.

He added that Germany was one possibility since Fischer's father was a
German citizen.

NOT NECESSARILY ELIGIBLE

A spokesman for the German embassy in Tokyo said, however, that neither
Fischer nor any proxy had applied for a passport, nor was it certain he
would qualify for German citizenship.

"We do not know whether he has any claim to German citizenship," the
spokesman said.

"We doubt he actually will establish contact. Nothing he has said or
done in the past would suggest that course," he added.

Bosnitch also said on Thursday that there had been no response yet to a
request by Fischer for provisional release.

A former Japanese lawmaker, Ichiji Ishii, told the same news conference
he was prepared to act as Fischer's guarantor if he were released while
his appeal continued.

"As a person who likes chess ... and a friend of Bobby Fischer, I'm
going to guarantee his presence in Japan," he said.

Fischer has long been surrounded by controversy.

He won the world chess title in 1972, beating Spassky of the Soviet
Union in Reykjavik, Iceland, in
a victory seen as something of a Cold War propaganda coup for the United
States.

He then lost the title in 1975 after his conditions for a match against
Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union, were rejected by chess
officials. Karpov became champion by default.

Fischer disappeared until the 1992 match against Spassky, whom he again
defeated, taking $3 million in prize money.

He then disappeared again, resurfacing after the September 11, 2001
attacks on the United States to give an interview to Philippines radio
praising the strikes.

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It's not the first time Timman witnessed Spasski's anti-Semitism. I hope you
are able to follow this ugly link:

http://www.google.nl/groups?hl=nl&lr...com%26rnum%3D1