Bobby Fischer Found

paulydavis writes "Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted since 1992 for playing a tournament in Yugoslavia despite U.N. sanctions, was detained in Japan for an apparent passport violation and will be deported to the United States."

Fisching Trip

[mfh]

> Fischer, indicted by a grand jury in 1992, managed to elude authorities and left a tantalizing trail that included radio broadcasts from the Philippines and sightings in Japan.

So Fischer played a 12 year game of chess against the feds and lost, eh? That's the problem when you run from the law... you can't 'mate 'em, but they can 'mate you in 12.

Thank God!!

[Anonymous Coward]

They finally caught that villain! Justice is served!

Has to be Said...

[illuminata]

Checkmate, bitch!

chess sanctions?

[Lord Ender]

Perhaps they should start an oil-for-chess program.

Really

[gowen]

How could the submitter fail to title this article

Bobby Fischer Found ... In Japan

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[TopShelf]

Maybe for that brief moment in time (1972). It's certainly not considered that now (or in 2001).

Oh, just give that Jeopardy guy a chance. By the time he tops $10 million, the country will be teeming with Brainiac wannabes...

Deported !!

[hyderabadi]

deported to the United States - that's new!!

Nice chap

[ultrabot]

Sound like a guy that could be posting on slashdot, if he only was into computers :-).

Re:Thank God!!

[gmletzkojr]

Yes, finally our world will be safe from rogue chess players. Now the US can spend its resources on petty topics, such as the economy, drugs, unemployment, invading other countries, etc, etc.

Well, only non-medicinal drugs.

Cheats in chess?

[Gentoo Fan]

He announced that he had abandoned chess in 1996 and launched a new version, "Fischerandom," ... Fischer claimed it would bring the fun back into the game and rid it of cheats.

I think Valve [valvesoftware.com] should hire this guy to patch up Counter-Strike.

Re:Has to be Said...

[dasmegabyte]

I wonder if the Japanese customs agent was clever enough to ask him "Trick or Treat" before slapping on the cuffs.

Finally safe

[xs650]

Now that Martha Stewart and Bobby Fischer have both been aprehended, I feel much more secure.

Re:So ...

[Tumbleweed]

Hey, what's with this 'Yugoslavia' place? It doesn't seem to be on my map... :)

Re:But what about Paul Simon?

[Anonymous Coward]

The cast [amazon.com] begs to differ.

Re:But what about Paul Simon?

[blackmonday]

Yes, but nobody realized it was him, he was going under the pseudonym of a guy named "Al". He kept telling people to call him that.

Bobby Who?

[tomstdenis]

CNN doesn't talk about him so he's not real.

Re:Fisching Trip

[Anonymous Coward]

It isn't the "mate in 12" he is worrying about, it is the "mate in prison" that is his real problem now.

So we can find Bobby Fischer but...

[jogoodma]

...we can't find those damn WMD's?

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[Anonymous Coward]

What are you talking about? we certainly are a country of intellectuals now. we don't let jingoism and "big lie" techniques distract us from the important issues of the day, we have a thoughtful, well-reasoning president who knows being intelligent means you have to adapt to the situation, even change your views, and not stubbornly believe something despite all facts saying otherwise, we are reading books other than the bible, we believe in evolution and not creationism, and we understand that upper class tax cuts may provide a temporary "high" but will only lead to misery later on.

Oh wait that was just in my dreams

Re:Fisching Trip

[JosKarith]

"you can't 'mate 'em, but they can 'mate you in 12."
What a coincidence - that's almost certainly what they said to "Shower Bitch Bobby" was told as he was escorted to his cell.

Re:Fisching Trip

[Anonymous Coward]

...an intersting gambit.

Murray Head saw this coming...

[angst7]

Japan. Oriental setting
and the city dont know what the city is getting...
The creme de la creme of the chess world
and a show with everthing but Bin Laden.

Time flies! Doesn't seem a minute
since Yugoslavia had the chess boys in it
All change dont you know that when you
play at this level its no ordinary venue?

In New York or Afganistan or Iraq... or this place!

One night in Tokyo and all jews are bastards...
Not much between self hate and insanity
You'll find a spook in every karaoke bar
and if your lucky you've still got your qeeen
I can feel deportation creeping up on me.

(ok, so the execution was weak, but you get the idea)

Terrible Idea!

[Pii]

We can't have him down in Guantanimo, tutoring terrorists in the finer points of chess...

If bad people become chess masters, the terrorists win!

Re:But what about Paul Simon?

[Democritus2]

That was not in Hitler's, errrr, I mean Bush's America!!!!

liberal unamerican terrorist bastard

Re:Thank God!!

[chris_mahan]

Yes, and now that the US has demonstrated its superior manhunting skills against a determined strategist, we'll be getting our miffs on Osama in no time.

Oh, but it was ... In Japan!!!!

Re:Open mouth, insert paranoid foot

[JPelorat]

OMG, governments can multitask?! I was hoping the IRS was going to be too busy running IED patrols in Iraq to demand I pay my taxes next year!

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Re:Open mouth, insert paranoid foot

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Fischer claimed it would bring the fun back into the game and rid it of cheats.

I hate those wankers with aimbots and wallhacking, chess is supposed to be a gentleman's sport for Pete's sake!

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Re:So ...

[Maestro4k]

• We've been hunting a guy around the world for 12 years because he played a chess match in a country we didn't like at the time?

So that's why the FBI didn't notice what Al Queda was up to, too busy hunting for an insane chess genius!

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[Lumpy]

Huh? you obviousally never played a round of Australian Rules Football.

That is the most civilized and intelectual game ever invented.

Most of the players can identify almost all human internal organs and bones just by looking at them lying there on the playing field.

You know you're a nerd when....

[Vic]

And the hot-swapping of players while play is in motion adds a whole other dimension to the game

.....you refer to a "line change" as "hot swapping". I'll have to remember that one! ;-)

Cheers,
Vic

Re:Deported !!

[DrWhizBang]

not really. Here in Canada, that's where we send all of our criminals.

Oh, and bad comedians.

Re:I don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

There is no hard evidence of this... it's all circumstantial, but the truth will be known is a few hundred years. AIDS was engineered by SA and the US to kill blacks. Look at the continent today. It was a success.

Man, I feel so damn betrayed.

All that time, they told me we were working on a secret project to kill the fags.

Lying bastards.

Re:Who's going to play Fisher in the movie?

[rifftide]

Nicholas Cage. "Searching for Bobby Fischer II: Real stories of the Airport Security Patrol" will also feature Sandra Bullock as the American expat stuck in a crummy data entry job for the Japanese government.

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[abigor]

You certainly live up to your name.

Re:Give the Poor Guy a Rest (not Arrest)

[Anonymous Coward]

Whoa whoa whoa, why does he have to be my neighbor? Since when did Montana become the little "out of the way" place to store your undesireables? First you send us Californians and movie stars, and now you're sending hate filled nutcases. That's on top of the wack-jobs we already have here. Damnit! Montana is NOT the Australia of the U.S.!

I say we give Bobby a quiet little spot right next door to you.

Fischer vs. Kasparov!

[Apostata]

Screw jail time, let's trot that little paranoid pony to Madison Square Gardens and sit him down with Gary Kasparov (that is, if the the venue could possibly hold their egos).
Quick, somebody start a petition! I'll stand here and criticize from afar!

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[jcsehak]

The guy making $250K can save $25K a year effortlessly, with zero impact on his family's standard of living.

Says you. Just last week I had to take a commercial flight to my villa in the Bahamas instead of my private jet, because gas prices were just too high and I'm trying to save 10% of my income. Let me tell you, these hard times are affecting everyone.

Re:George W Bush

[east coast]

Fischer referred to George W. Bush during one of his radio interviews as "borderline retarded."

If you knew anything about Fischer you'd realize that he'd probably call you borderline retarded too.

Re:Oh please, way to pat yourself on the back...

[BootSpooge]

I don't know any really stupid chess players.
You've never played me.

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[carlos_benj]

No. They keep it in a big vault and Bill dives into it every afternoon, emulating his childhood hero Scrooge McDuck....

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[Alzheimers]

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's not like the guy had a movie named after him [imdb.com]or anything.

That's nothing. . .

[Fantastic Lad]

Yep. Everything is normal and sane with the world.

It's just that Chess Players Liberation Front might be plotting to take out the Statue of Liberty.

It could happen. . .

She looks sort of like a big chess piece, right. . ?

-FL

"You have been lied to since birth. The thing they are terrified you might learn is that it is possible for everybody to be happy and well provided for without misery, fear or ignorance."

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[ryanjensen]

There are better things to do with booze and hookers than burn them ...

Re:Changed the view of the US?

[jcleland]

I have no idea when it's on in the Boston market
Jeopardy is on at the same time, even if you are in a restaurant.

Man, I'm really sorry, I just couldn't help myself...

Re:Jesus!

[be951]

Yeah, that whole family is bad news. Didn't he have a sister named Amy that just got out of jail or something?

Finally, we are safer...

[DynaSoar]

...now that Osama bin Fischer has been caught.

Re:Fischerandom Chess

[Black Perl]

Incidentally, in the wake of this story I noticed that he's been promoting something called "Fischerandom Chess" in which the first row pieces are places semi-randomly

Yes, I play this way. I put all my pawns on their row in random order.

Re:Mentally Ill

[paganizer]

sounds like a democrat.

Re:I can't sympathize

[Anonymous Coward]

"If bold face lying to the american public was an impeachable offence, I have no doubt that every president since Carter (and probably him as well), would have been impeached."

Carter lied in italics.

Geography

[dolmen.fr]

"The sanctions were imposed on Yugoslavia for provoking warfare in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina."

I hope one day, US journalists will learn geography...
FYI, Bosnia-Herzegovina is a part of former Yugoslavia. Not a neighboor.