Truong enjoys promoting women's chess. Unless the woman either doesn't
kiss his butt or he can't leer over their bodies.
Truong loathes women as people and patronises them by only referring to
their looks and making lewd comments about their figures. I am glad I
don't have contact with this nasty little man who disgraces his sex.
As for Anna Hahn I think she is well out of anything involving Truong.
Arclight(*)(RT): is that her married name ? I was talking about Anna
Zatonskih
ICM: Melnikov
ICM: is her husband
ICM: That is what I meant
ICM: Zatonskih's performance will shut up all the idiots about Anna
Hahn
Arclight(*)(RT): ahh I see
ICM: They think Hahn should have been on the team instead of Zatonskih
Arclight(*)(RT): maybe in place of Jen
ICM: And Zatonskih is about 2500 and Hahn 2200
ICM: Jen is weaker but not as week as Hahn
Arclight(*)(RT): ahhh
ICM: Hahn had a ridiculous 2003 US Championship
ICM: She was on the bottom of the chart for 8 rounds
ICM: and she won a lucky game against a 2100 in a losing position
ICM: Then she won the rapid games and they think she can help the US
Team win the Gold medal
ICM: That tells you why the US Women's Teams have never won a medal
until now
ICM: They have incompetent people running the show
Arclight(*)(RT): well , I like Irina Krush and Anna ..lol
ICM: You like everybody
Arclight(*)(RT): and of course Susan, but that goes withut say
Arclight(*)(RT): without
Arclight(*)(RT): ok ok I'm easy
Arclight(*)(RT): I like everybody
Arclight(*)(RT): lol
BarbaraVilliers(*): :-)
ICM: Yes, you are easy Arclight(*)(RT): is that her married name ? I
was talking about Anna Zatonskih
ICM: Melnikov
ICM: is her husband
ICM: That is what I meant
ICM: Zatonskih's performance will shut up all the idiots about Anna
Hahn
Arclight(*)(RT): ahh I see
ICM: They think Hahn should have been on the team instead of Zatonskih
Arclight(*)(RT): maybe in place of Jen
ICM: And Zatonskih is about 2500 and Hahn 2200
ICM: Jen is weaker but not as week as Hahn
Arclight(*)(RT): ahhh
ICM: Hahn had a ridiculous 2003 US Championship
ICM: She was on the bottom of the chart for 8 rounds
ICM: and she won a lucky game against a 2100 in a losing position
ICM: Then she won the rapid games and they think she can help the US
Team win the Gold medal
ICM: That tells you why the US Women's Teams have never won a medal
until now
ICM: They have incompetent people running the show
Arclight(*)(RT): well , I like Irina Krush and Anna ..lol
ICM: You like everybody
Arclight(*)(RT): and of course Susan, but that goes withut say
Arclight(*)(RT): without
Arclight(*)(RT): ok ok I'm easy
Arclight(*)(RT): I like everybody

Bobby Fischer: five days in solitary confinement
08.03.2005 We had just reported about Fischer's new passport, which an
Icelandic delegation had carried to Japan. A minor mystery was why it
had not been handed over to him last Wednesday, as planned. Now we
learn that Japanese authorities had put the former world champion into
solitary confinement. For five days. Over a hard-boiled egg. We are not
joking.


The ever-watchful Mainichi Daily News reports that Bobby Fischer was
placed in solitary confinement for several days (we are told for five)
"because of a brawl over a single hard-boiled egg". Apparently Fischer
asked for an extra egg. There was an argument and a scuffle, after
which Fisher was "hurled alone into a cell lit and monitored 24 hours
from Wednesday to Sunday."

Mainichi notes that the fight occurred on the same day that the first
of two delegations of eminent persons from Iceland were due to meet him
at the East Japan Immigration Bureau Detention Center in Ushiku,
Ibaraki Prefecture. Officials at the center were aware that Fischer was
due to receive a delegation on exactly the day he ended up in solitary
confinement.

It was the first time Fischer had been placed in a solitary cell since
he was sent to Ushiku in August last year. "It was a blatant
provocation," Gardar Sverrisson, an Icelandic politician and member of
a Fischer support group said at the home of the Tokyo Bar Association.


Miyoko Watai and Saemundur Palsson

Details of the incident were given by Fischer's fiancee Miyoko Watai
and his long-time friend, Saemundur Palsson, who was able to visit
Fisher and speak to him through a glass window on Monday morning.
Fischer told Palsson that he had asked a passing guard if he could have
an egg for his breakfast. He grabbed the guard by his shirt, which
unfortunately ripped. "A group of about 14 or 15 guards came into
Fischer's cell to drag him away," Palsson reports. "He resisted their
efforts. Guards slapped handcuffs on him with his hands behind his
back, holding him that way for two hours. Then a middle-aged guard
approached Fischer, told him he had to behave himself, then started to
free him from his bindings. When the handcuffs were released, another
scuffle broke out and Fischer hit a guard in the face." Palsson said he
was not sure whether Fischer had hit the warden purposely or by
accident. He said Fischer had not spoken about whether it was
deliberate.

After his release from solitary confinement Fischer was on Monday
permitted individual 30-minute meetings with Watai, Palsson and
Gudmunder Thorarinsson, former head of the Icelandic Chess Federation
and organizer of Fischer's 1972 match in Reykjavik with Boris Spassky
for the world title. The Icelanders are hoping to escort Fischer back
to their country. Iceland has prepared a special foreigner's passport
for him and his supporters have an airplane ticket out of the country
with his name on it. He is hoping to leave by Wednesday, his 62nd
birthday, but that wish seems almost impossible.

Bobby Fischer: five days in solitary confinement
08.03.2005 We had just reported about Fischer's new passport, which an
Icelandic delegation had carried to Japan. A minor mystery was why it
had not been handed over to him last Wednesday, as planned. Now we
learn that Japanese authorities had put the former world champion into
solitary confinement. For five days. Over a hard-boiled egg. We are not
joking.


The ever-watchful Mainichi Daily News reports that Bobby Fischer was
placed in solitary confinement for several days (we are told for five)
"because of a brawl over a single hard-boiled egg". Apparently Fischer
asked for an extra egg. There was an argument and a scuffle, after
which Fisher was "hurled alone into a cell lit and monitored 24 hours
from Wednesday to Sunday."

Mainichi notes that the fight occurred on the same day that the first
of two delegations of eminent persons from Iceland were due to meet him
at the East Japan Immigration Bureau Detention Center in Ushiku,
Ibaraki Prefecture. Officials at the center were aware that Fischer was
due to receive a delegation on exactly the day he ended up in solitary
confinement.

It was the first time Fischer had been placed in a solitary cell since
he was sent to Ushiku in August last year. "It was a blatant
provocation," Gardar Sverrisson, an Icelandic politician and member of
a Fischer support group said at the home of the Tokyo Bar Association.


Miyoko Watai and Saemundur Palsson

Details of the incident were given by Fischer's fiancee Miyoko Watai
and his long-time friend, Saemundur Palsson, who was able to visit
Fisher and speak to him through a glass window on Monday morning.
Fischer told Palsson that he had asked a passing guard if he could have
an egg for his breakfast. He grabbed the guard by his shirt, which
unfortunately ripped. "A group of about 14 or 15 guards came into
Fischer's cell to drag him away," Palsson reports. "He resisted their
efforts. Guards slapped handcuffs on him with his hands behind his
back, holding him that way for two hours. Then a middle-aged guard
approached Fischer, told him he had to behave himself, then started to
free him from his bindings. When the handcuffs were released, another
scuffle broke out and Fischer hit a guard in the face." Palsson said he
was not sure whether Fischer had hit the warden purposely or by
accident. He said Fischer had not spoken about whether it was
deliberate.

After his release from solitary confinement Fischer was on Monday
permitted individual 30-minute meetings with Watai, Palsson and
Gudmunder Thorarinsson, former head of the Icelandic Chess Federation
and organizer of Fischer's 1972 match in Reykjavik with Boris Spassky
for the world title. The Icelanders are hoping to escort Fischer back
to their country. Iceland has prepared a special foreigner's passport
for him and his supporters have an airplane ticket out of the country
with his name on it. He is hoping to leave by Wednesday, his 62nd
birthday, but that wish seems almost impossible.

Fischer's passport =96 to freedom?
08.03.2005 March 9th is Bobby Fischer's 62nd birthday. By chance a very
special gift has arrived in Japan for the former world champion: an
Icelandic passport with which he may be able to travel to freedom after
more than six months in a Japanese detention facility. We have
exclusive pictures of the new passport.


We received the following information from John Bosnitch of the
Committee to Free Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer has passport, ready to travel! The Committee to Free
Bobby Fischer is very pleased to announce that Bobby's lawyer, Masako
Suzuki, took possession of his new Icelandic passport at the Icelandic
embassy in Tokyo at shortly after 9:00 PM on March 7, 2005.

The Committee will address this critical development at its already
scheduled news conference at the Foreign correspondents' Club of Japan,
on the 20th floor of the Yurakucho Denki Building in Tokyo, starting at
4:00 PM on March 8, 2005. This conference is open and unrestricted.

Tomorrow, March 9th, will be Bobby Fischer's 62nd birthday. We have
already bought his present: a plane ticket. Free the King of Chess!
Free Bobby Fischer Now!

Einar S. Einarsson, Secretary of the RJF Committee in Iceland, also
wrote and sent us the following exclusive pictures from Japan.


Lawyer Masko Suzuki with Fischer's passport

On March 7th Bobby Fischer's s lawyer, Masko Suzuki, received his new
passport, which had been kept in the Icelandic Embassy here for more
than a week.


Fischer's Icelandic passport

On Tuesday morning Suzuki will notify the Directory of
Immigration/Ministry of Justice and the Director of the Detention
Center "Tourist Camp Lock-up" where the former world champion has been
imprisoned for almost eight months. Suzuki will demand Fischer's
immediate release and free travel permission.


Fischer's Japanese fianc=E9e Miyoko Watai and his old buddy Saemi "Rock"
Palsson with the new passport

The Japanese authorities have known all the time of the existence of
Bobby's new Iceland passport, but did not respond as expected. Still
the game for Bobby=B4s freedom is not over, it may take some days more
before he can travel to Iceland.


Miyoko and Saemi, Fischer's dearest friends

His old friend Saei visited Bobby today. Tears were shed when the two
met after 33 years, separated by a glass window.


Members of Fischer's support team with the crucial document

By the way Bobby sends his best birthday wishes to Bent Larsen, who
turned 70 a few days ago. He spoke highly of Larsen, whom he respects
more than many other GMs.



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Previous ChessBase articles
Fischer receives an Icelandic passport
2/23/2005 Immigration authorities in Iceland have decided to issue full
travel documents for former world champion Bobby Fischer, who is being
held in Japanese detention for not possessing a valid passport.
Fischer's new passport will be sent to Japan by diplomatic mail, and a
delegation is traveling there to escort him to Iceland.
Fischer's lawyer Masako Suzuki speaks out
02.02.2005 Is Japan buckling under pressure by the US? Bobby Fischer,
61, former World Champion of Chess who has been jailed in Japan for six
months now, is applying for Icelandic citizenship. But Tokyo seems to
be balking at a constructive solution entailing his release to Iceland.
Fischer's lawyer Masako Suzuki has given us an exclusive interview.
Bobby Fischer applies for Icelandic Citizenship
25.01.2005 After the Japanese authorities last week refused Fischer's
request to be extradited to Iceland the chess legend, who is being held
in a Japanese detention facility, has today written to the President of
the Icelandic Althingi (picture), applying for Icelandic citizenship. A
special law would have to be passed to grant Fischer's request.



Bobby Fischer =96 immigration plans on ice
22.01.2005 His supporters filed a petition that Fischer might be
released from detention in a Tokyo jail and allowed to travel to
Iceland, where he has been granted refuge. But Japanese Justice
Ministry lawyers said they were not prepared to change Fischer's
deportation destination to Iceland, and that he would have to remain in
detention. A harsh blow for the chess legend.



Bobby Fischer =96 six months in jail
1/17/2005 On July 13, 2004 he was arrested at Narita Airport in Tokyo,
for attempting to leave the country on an invalidated. Since then the
greatest hero of Western chess has been languishing in a Japanese
detention facility, now physically exhausted and suffering from dizzy
spells. His Icelandic friends, who are offering him refuge, have
launched another appeal to the authorities.



US threatens Iceland, Fischer Committee appeals
22.12.2004 Iceland is under US pressure to drop plans to offer a home
to fugitive former chess champion Bobby Fischer, the Reuters news
agency tells us. But the Icelandic government has stated that its offer
"will not be withdrawn despite pressure from the United States." How do
we know that? Among other things we read it in Aljazeera, would you
believe? Here's the latest on this international confrontation.



RJF Committee mobilizes pro-Fischer forces
18.12.2004 While Bobby Fischer remains incarcerated in a Japanese
prison a special committee in Iceland is moving to get him free and
find him a home on the North-Atlantic island country. Iceland's foreign
minister and a prominent political scientist have spoken out. Here's a
report on Fischer's Iceland Connection...
Fischer to get refuge in Iceland?
12/16/2004 The news today on Bobby Fischer, who is currently being held
in a Japanese detention facilities pending extradition to the US, is
that the Icelandic government has offered to grant him a residence
permit. In a telephone interview Fischer speaks about his plight in
Japan and reacts to statements by Garry Kasparov on Fischer Random
Chess. Full details...
Returning to the 'scene of the crime'
30.11.2004 Twelve years ago Boris Spassky played a match against Bobby
Fischer in Yugoslavia. That got Fischer into a lot of trouble, while
for Spassky, a French citizen, there were no repercussions. Now the
tenth world champion returned to Belgrade to open the Belgrade Chess
Trophy. Quick interview...
Fischer to Bush and Koizumi: 'You are going to pay for this!'
18.10.2004 Bobby Fischer, still in detention in Japan, has spoken out
again in an interview, this time threatening the Japanese Prime
Minister Koizumi and US President Bush: "You are going to pay for this,
and you are going to pay for your crimes in Iraq too." His new lawyer,
Richard J. Vattuone, plans to release documents to prove US government
involvement in a plot against Fischer.
'We want to live together forever'
01.09.2004 She collected pictures of her chess hero after his match
with Boris Spassky in 1972. One year later they met in Tokyo =96 the
start of a romance spanning decades. Since four years the two have
lived together in downtown Kamata in Tokyo's Ota Ward. In an exclusive
interview for ChessBase Miyoko Watai tells us the story of her life
with Bobby Fischer.
Listen to Bobby Fischer
26.08.2004 In emotional phone calls from his detention cell in Tokyo ex
world champion Bobby Fischer gave a Philippine radio station two
lengthy interviews. Fischer is facing deportation and incarceration in
the US, and voices his nightmare fears: "I will be tried, convicted,
sentenced, imprisoned, tortured and murdered." We have summary
transcripts and audio files.
Dramatic moments around Fischer's deportation
25.08.2004 First the Japanese Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa issued a
deportation order against former world champion Bobby Fischer's, then
Fischer's lawyers filed a lightning appeal on the grounds that physical
deportation would be a flagrant violation of Fischer's right to full
legal recourse and protection under Japanese law. Here's the full story
by Fischer's legal coordinator.
'Bobby Fischer and I have decided to marry'
17.08.2004 Bobby Fischer, the former world chess champion, plans to
marry the president of the Japan Chess Association (and four-time
Japanese women's champion) Miyoko Watai. This was reported in
newspapers and wire services last night. Now Watai-san has sent us a
statement explaining the background of her personal relationship with
Fischer.
Fischer renounces US citizenship
15.08.2004 Bobby Fischer has been moved to a new detention facility in
Tokyo, pending a decision on his deportation to the US, where he faces
a 10-year jail sentence. A lot of new material has surfaced, including
Fischer's handwritten renouncement of his US citizenship and a
blow-by-blow description and picture of his arrest at Narita Airport.
Harrowing stuff...
Spassky to Bush: Arrest me!
10.08.2004 Boris Spassky, who played the contentious return match
against Bobby Fischer in Yugoslavia 1992, for which the latter is
currently facing deportation and incarceration in the US, has appealed
to President Bush to show mercy and charity for his tormented
successor. If for some reason that should be impossible, Spassky
suggests a very imaginative alternative...
Fischer's appeal rejected
28.07.2004 Bobby Fischer's appeal against his deportation was rejected
today by Japanese authorities. Meanwhile the Icelandic Chess Federation
has appealed to US president Bush to pardon Fischer and set up a
petition web site to collect signatures. In Tokyo a "Free Fischer Press
Conference" is scheduled for Thursday. More...
Fischer a sacrificial pawn?
25.07.2004 Bobby Fischer is still in detention at Narita Airport in
Tokyo, traumatised but stubborn, "behaving like a Samurai". At the same
time news outlets all over the world are covering the story, with
Fischer's brother-in-law Russell Targ assailing the Bush administration
for playing election year politics with the former chess champion's
freedom. There's a lot to be read...
Game of Life: Kasparov on Fischer - in full
20.07.2004 The news of Fischer's arrest in Japan came as a shock to
Garry Kasparov, who was in a holiday camp working intensely on the
games of his greatest American predecessor. In today's issue of The
Wall Street Journal Kasparov assesses Fischer's chess career =96 for a
public that was being exposed to his current situation. We now bring
you Kasparov's full article.
Will Fischer be extradited?
19.07.2004 Chess legend Bobby Fischer, the hero of millions, languishes
in the detention facilities of Narita Airport in Tokyo, waiting for a
decision by Japanese Immigration authorities on his deportation to the
US. We have collected all the documents and reconstructed a timeline to
his arrest. Fischer, who has no legal counsel, is appealing for
international assistance.