Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer is complaining about rough treatement after being arrested in Japan for a passport violation. If sent back to the U.S. he faces a possible 10 year prison sentence for playing his 1992 match with Spassky in violation of economic sanctions against the host. A story in Forward discusses Fischer's extreme anti-Semitism.
Posted by Jerry Lawson at July 22, 2004 09:12 PM | TrackBack