Monday, March 07, 2005
It Seems He Forgot to Look a Few Moves Ahead This Time
Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer got himself four days of solitary confinement in a Japanese immigration detention center after getting into it with guards when they wouldn't give him an extra boiled egg for breakfast. Fischer has been in custody in Japan since he was arrested in July for traveling with an invalid U. S. passport. He's fighting deportation to the United States, where he is wanted for playing a 1992 chess match in sanctioned Yugoslavia. Fischer's Japanese fiancee, Miyoko Watai, was also his bodyguard at one time. Perhaps the United States should reconsider whether or not they really want this guy back. Source
