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Bobby is found........ Whoa! USHIKU, Japan(AP) Chess legend Bobby Fischer was freed Thursday from a Japanese detention center and immediately headed for flight to Iceland, bringing to a halt efforts to deport him to the United States.Fischer, sporting a long, gray beard, jeans and a baseball cap pulled down low to cover his face, left the immigration detention center in this city on Tokyo's outskirts early Thursday morning.The eccentric chess icon was taken into custody by Japanese immigration officials in July when he tried to leave the country using an invalid U.S. passport.As he was taken away in a black limousine provided by the Icelandic Embassy, his vehicle was mobbed by a few dozen photographers and reporters. Fischer did not emerge from the car or make any comment.Fischer was accompanied by his fiancee, Miyoko Watai, the head of Japan's chess association, and an official from the Icelandic Embassy. They were headed for the airport to try and catch an afternoon flight to Denmark en route to Iceland, where he has been granted citizenship.Fischer was characteristically defiant as he arrived at the airport."I won't be free until I get out of Japan. This was not an arrest. It was a kidnapping cooked up by Bush and Koizumi," he said referring to President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.Fischer, who has been held in detention since his arrest, claims his U.S. passport was revoked illegally and sued to block a deportation order to the United States, where he is wanted for violating sanctions imposed on the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match against Russian Boris Spassky in 1992.This week, Iceland's Parliament stepped in to break the standoff, awarding citizenship to Fischer. Iceland is where Fischer won the world championship in 1972, defeating Spassky in a classic Cold War showdown that propelled Fischer to international stardom.Fischer, 62, could still face extradition to the United States _ Iceland, like Japan, has an extradition treaty with Washington.

[avsfan]

F'en Fischer.

[Vade]

My brother is a huge chess nut, and he thinks Bobby Fischer went off the deep end at least a handful of years ago

[faketree]

Bobby Fischer, while truely a great chess mind, he is also an individual with many, many problems. In addition to being a raging anti-semite (which is weird considering his mother was Jewish), he holds highly anti-American views and now anti-Japanese views. He truely believes the world is out to get him.Since his public chess play was rather limited do to numerous years in seclusion and random no-shows for matches, we will never know how good he actually was, or is.More importantly than Fischer, Garry Kasparov, quite literally the greatest chess player to have ever lived, has retired from professional play after being the highest ranked player for two decades. This guy was a walking computer. He was made famous to the public by his ESPN broadcasts of matches against various supercomputers, Deep Blue, Deep Junior, and one other that escapes my mind. These computers are able to crunch millions and millions of calculations per second compared to a humans 2-3 per second. Yet, on most occasions, Kasparov came away the victor. He is only 41 and still at the top of the game, retiring after winning one of the biggest tournaments of the year.All I can say is, thank you Mr. Kasparov. And good luck in the future.

[NormanHaupt]

faketree said:

Bobby Fischer, while truely a great chess mind, he is also an individual with many, many problems.  In addition to being a raging anti-semite (which is weird considering his mother was Jewish), he holds highly anti-American views and now anti-Japanese views.  He truely believes the world is out to get him.Since his public chess play was rather limited do to numerous years in seclusion and random no-shows for matches, we will never know how good he actually was, or is.More importantly than Fischer, Garry Kasparov, quite literally the greatest chess player to have ever lived, has retired from professional play after being the highest ranked player for two decades.  This guy was a walking computer.  He was made famous to the public by his ESPN broadcasts of matches against various supercomputers, Deep Blue, Deep Junior, and one other that escapes my mind.  These computers are able to crunch millions and millions of calculations per second compared to a humans 2-3 per second.  Yet, on most occasions, Kasparov came away the victor.  He is only 41 and still at the top of the game, retiring after winning one of the biggest tournaments of the year.All I can say is, thank you Mr. Kasparov.  And good luck in the future.

Very well said.

[digitalmonkey]

faketree said:

He was made famous to the public by his ESPN broadcasts of matches against various supercomputers, Deep Blue, Deep Junior, and one other that escapes my mind.

Deep Throat? It sounds vaguely familiar...yes I think that could be it.

[faketree]

digitalmonkey said:

faketree said:

He was made famous to the public by his ESPN broadcasts of matches against various supercomputers, Deep Blue, Deep Junior, and one other that escapes my mind.

Deep Throat? It sounds vaguely familiar...yes I think that could be it.

[MilesZS]

Anyone ever read, heard about, or even played "Fischer's Random Chess" or whatever it was called? After he quit playing 'normal' chess -- or when he was avoiding it, whichever, he started "Fischer's Random Chess" or something like that to entertain himself and to stand out. Basically, if I remember right, your back line pieces were randomized in their order. Both players started with the same order, that way one didn't hold an advantage, but then you were forced to create strategies on the fly. Big pain in the ass for someone like me who likes to study openings and take time with every move. I wasn't the best at improvisation.

[faketree]

MilesZS said:

Anyone ever read, heard about, or even played "Fischer's Random Chess" or whatever it was called? After he quit playing 'normal' chess -- or when he was avoiding it, whichever, he started "Fischer's Random Chess" or something like that to entertain himself and to stand out. Basically, if I remember right, your back line pieces were randomized in their order. Both players started with the same order, that way one didn't hold an advantage, but then you were forced to create strategies on the fly. Big pain in the ass for someone like me who likes to study openings and take time with every move. I wasn't the best at improvisation.

yeah i tried fischers random chess. its freakin impossible. i've studied standard chess for a couple of years and openings are such a big part of the game its hard to deal with no set openings and defenses. i think you need to have such a deep understanding of the game in order to compete in random chess.i don't even like speed chess because i need a few minutes to go though everything in my head.