Bobby was FREE at 11am! Is April 1st early?

[Taro Toporific]

AP via Yahoo! News, Wed Mar 23, 6:49 AM ET
John Bosnitch of the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer, a supporter of former chess champion Bobby Fischer, said Wednesday, March 23, 2005, that the Japanese Justice Ministry has informed them Fischer will be allowed to leave Japan for Iceland on Thursday.

[Captain Japan]

Taro, nice job lining up the photos in these two recent threads:

[Taro Toporific]

Fischer 'to leave for Iceland'
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/23/bobby.fischer.ap/
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Posted: 1207 GMT (2007 HKT)
TOKYO, Japan
....It wasn't immediately clear if going to Iceland would help Fischer avoid extradition to the United States. Iceland, like Japan, has an extradition treaty with Washington.

[Taro Toporific]

NHK TV news at noon is showing Bobby leaving Narita at 11am!
(Meh, I'm still in Concrete Prison Japan tm.)

Bobby Fischer Freed From Japan
USHIKU, Japan Mar 23, 2005 --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.

[FG Lurker]

It's going to be interesting to see if the US continues to try to get him after he goes to Iceland...

A much younger Bobby:

[Guile]

This stuff doesn't make the news at all in the West. Now, if he had a feeding tube instead, that would be different.

[kamome]

Fuck Bobby Fischer. I was hoping that he'd rot in his Japanese jail cell.

[Taro Toporific]

Fuck Bobby Fischer. I was hoping that he'd rot in his Japanese jail cell.

I'm counting the days until Bobby starts whining about Iceland's sleet, winds ESE at 20 to 30 mph, temp 42.

[AssKissinger]

Fuck Bobby Fischer. I was hoping that he'd rot in his Japanese jail cell.

Wow. I thought you were me for a second there kamome.

[kamome]

Fuck Bobby Fischer. I was hoping that he'd rot in his Japanese jail cell.

Wow. I thought you were me for a second there kamome.

Yeah, I had to channel you for a minute or two before delivering that line.

[AssKissinger]

Fuck Bobby Fischer. I was hoping that he'd rot in his Japanese jail cell.

Wow. I thought you were me for a second there kamome.

Yeah, I had to channel you for a minute or two before delivering that line.

Next time just pm me. I'll help you come up with some more intense invective, like: Fuck Bobby Fischer. I was hoping that he'd rot in his Japanese jail cell and that a prison guard would ram a night stick up his ass everytime he fell asleep. See what I mean? Take your hate to the next level my man.

[Captain Japan]

Fuck Bobby Fischer. I was hoping that he'd rot in his Japanese jail cell.

Bobby Fischer flies free to Iceland
Mainichi

NARITA AIRPORT -- Bobby Fischer left Japan a free man Thursday after more than eight months of imprisonment, blasting Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and U.S. President George Bush as he left.

Fischer departed on a Scandinavian Airlines System flight to Reykjavik via Copenhagen at 1:27 p.m. following his release earlier from the East Japan Immigration Bureau Detention Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, where he had been held since August last year. He had been arrested for visa violations at Narita the previous month....more...

I've never seen a woman so happy to be pushing a luggage cart...

[torasan]

It's going to be interesting to see if the US continues to try to get him after he goes to Iceland...

Very interesting development, well done Bosnitch!

I wonder why Bobby was not taken to Narita Airport in a govt prison bus or van, in handcuffs, and why he was not paraded thru Narita Airport in handcuffs,as happens to most detainees when deported here?
Instead, the Icelandic envoy picked him up at the detention jail, drove him to Narita, treated like royalty again. Hmm, why the special treatment? even though he was then an Ice citizen (fake as all get out) (but it worked, nice job Bosnitch), he was still a detainee in Japan until he arrived at the boarding gate at Narita. Oh well,famous people like Bobby and Paul McCartney always get special treatment in Japan , even when jailed. Paul was dope charges 1969, remember, released when US Sen. Fat Ted Kennedy made some high level well placed phone calls. He walked. Bobby walked.

NOW......what's next? I wonder how long Bobby will remain in Iceland. My guess is the Mossad agents from Isreal, the same guys who kidnapped Eichman from South America, will tackle or drug Boybb in Iceland or use a chick sex to get him to a hotel where he can be doped up like Vanatu the nuclear whistle blower, and then Mossad will deliver Bobby to USA agents in DC in return from Jonathan Pollard. SMILE

Now that Bobby is free at last, expect some more wonderufl anti-semitic statements on his part, a major book deal for Bosnitch from a Montreal publisher and .....what else?

what a great saga. now an icelandic saga.

bobbysbruttir

[torasan]

This stuff doesn't make the news at all in the West. Now, if he had a feeding tube instead, that would be different.

Time differences, Guile. Watch Friday's papers in the west. big new york times story right now. online.

[torasan]

Ted Kennedy. Why was "Ted" treated like deleted in earlier post?

[torasan]

deleted Kennedy. Why was "deleted" treated like deleted in earlier post?

T-E-D is a bad word now? In what language?

[Taro Toporific]

deleted Kennedy. Why was "deleted" treated like deleted in earlier post?

T-E-D is a bad word now? In what language?

Sen. Ted Kennedy was a 24/7 troll and we had to ban him. Ditto for Josh Whedon that ghettocities fool.

[torasan]

[torasan]

[den4]

[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1445529,00.html?gusrc=rss
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"The Japanese government are unbelievable hypocrites," he said. "I was watching TV and listening to the radio while in detention in Tokyo, and they are bellyaching endlessly about how the North Koreans kidnapped some people 15 to 20 years ago. Yet they had just kidnapped me! They're monstrous hypocrites."

I wonder how you kidnap somebody who is trying to leave that country on a revoked passport?

Yesterday he said he was "finished" with playing chess, and inveighed against what he says is Jewish domination of the game.

sounds like the whining of a has-been genius who no longer can make the effort to sustain himself on his game of choice....

I agree with Taro....am waiting to hear him start whining about Iceland....

[Marvin Feltcher]

I strongly disagree with a lot of what Fischer said/says. In fact, I find it morally repugnant. Some of the things he says leave me feeling physically queasy and that usually takes some doing. But, I believe Fischer -- and everybody else -- should have the right to say whatever he likes and not be punished unless he harms somebody. It would be a sadder world for all of us if we could not have people like Fischer.

[Mulboyne]

CNN: Fischer clips hair but not views
REYJKAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- Neatly dressed, newly shorn but as unpredictable as ever, Bobby Fischer was welcomed Friday by supporters in Iceland, the chess-loving nation where his career peaked in a world championship victory 30 years ago. Most Icelanders seemed happy to embrace their newest citizen -- although some expressed alarm at Fischer's provocative and often anti-Semitic views, on display at a rambling, rambunctious press conference Friday. "I think he's a little bit crazy," said Runar Berg, an investment banker and recreational chess player. "Everyone has the right to express his opinion, but sometimes it's better to say nothing than to say rubbish like Bobby Fischer."

[Mulboyne]

Guardian: Bobby and me
For Stephen Moss, a fan of Fischer's since he was a boy, the opportunity to track him down at last was too much to resist. But would the former champion stop ranting for long enough to give him an autograph?
...One of these oh-so-friendly Icelandic journalists turns out to be a big shot from the Channel 2 TV station. They have bought up the rights to Fischer; they have padlocked Palsson; worst of all, they have hired a private jet to whisk Fischer to Iceland. When the plane from Tokyo arrives, he and Watai are bundled into a van and driven away. The Icelandic journalists scatter, searching for him. They are furious with Channel 2, especially the man from Channel 1, whose job may be on the line. By a stroke of luck, fog means that Fischer's 12-seater private plane can't land and he has to take a taxi to Malmö in southern Sweden, where the jet will be waiting. As he is leaving Copenhagen, he is cornered in a car park by the agitated man from Channel 1 and gives some characteristically robust quotes - to summarise, death to the Jews, death to Japan, death to America, death to George Bush. (Probably death to Tony Blair, too - Fischer refused to fly via London because he feared he would be grabbed by the police there.) Anyway, Fischer has let off steam, the Channel 1 man's job is saved, we have a news story.
One person who will talk to me is Gudmundur Thorarinsson, the organiser of the 1972 Fischer-Spassky encounter...He is not afraid to confront the central question concerning Fischer: is he mad? "There is a grey area between a genius and someone who is insane," says Thorarinsson. "I don't think he is insane, but he is not like most people." Thorarinsson says that by devoting his teens and his twenties to chess, Fischer "sacrificed" his life - he never had the chance to develop the social skills needed to deal with the world beyond the chessboard. Fischer has an obsession with detail that, to my non-medical eye, appears autistic. When he recites his suffering at the hands of the US and now the Japanese, every letter he has received is cited, dated, described exactly. His is a world of tiny details; it is the bigger picture that eludes him, so he falls back on one stupid overarching theory - the world Jewish conspiracy. The Icelandic view that he is a lovable eccentric is a cop-out. He is a paranoid fantasist. But he is deluded not dangerous; Howard Hughes rather than Adolf Hitler. Mastery of detail, obsessionalism, relentless concentration, the ability to shut out the world are advantages in chess; in life they can be a disaster. ...Palsson is visibly embarrassed by Fischer's views on the Jews - or the "stinking Jews", as Fischer always calls them - and hopes he can persuade him to moderate his language. "I will try to calm him down," Palsson says in the lobby of the Loftleidir hotel, where Fischer has again been installed in the presidential suite which he occupied throughout the two months of the 1972 match. "We are friends and he will have to listen to me. He is his own worst enemy. Citizenship brings with it responsibilities: Icelanders don't usually talk in such a hostile way about other people. I hope he will stop blaming Jews and Americans for everything."
...So the endgame. I head back to the Loftleidir. Fischer has finished lunch, trimmed his beard, had a haircut. He has decided to give a press conference to the 20 or so journalists camped in the lobby. The presence of American sports journalist Jeremy Schaap adds a frisson. He is the son of Dick Schaap, a New Yorker who was a close friend of the young Bobby but later declared that Fischer was mad. Fischer quickly makes the connection (Schaap's TV channel, sports broadcaster ESPN, may have planned it this way). "I knew your father," he drawls to the young, dark-haired Schaap. "He said I didn't have a sane bone in my body: I don't forget that." I ask about chess; a Russian TV crew asks about Kasparov; the Icelanders ask whether Fischer likes herring, but the Schaap affair won't go away. Fischer insists on returning to it, and things suddenly turn ugly. "Let me get back to this guy," says Fischer, pointing at Schaap. "I hate to rap people personally, but his father many years ago befriended me, took me to see Knicks games, acted kind of like a father figure, and then later, like a typical Jewish snake, he had the most vicious things to say about me." Schaap snaps at that, says "I don't know that you've done much here today really to disprove anything he said," and walks out. All on camera. Maybe it's a made-for-TV set-up, maybe not, but it certainly chills the air: Fischer groans and there is a half-minute silence before the woman from Icelandic radio can get things back on track with another question about herring. The human being starts to emerge from under the baseball cap, then bang, he's off again with another lengthy exposition of his intricately wrought, completely bonkers theories, usually rounded off with: "It's all on the internet! Why don't you go look it up?"...He speaks for an hour; he is getting tired; so are we - the herring questions are starting to dominate.

[torasan]

I think that story above sums it up well:

Fischer: is he mad?

"There is a grey area between a genius and someone who is insane," says Thorarinsson. "I don't think he is insane, but he is not like most people."

Thorarinsson says that by devoting his teens and his 20s to chess, Fischer "sacrificed" his life -- he never had the chance to develop the social skills needed to deal with the world beyond the chessboard.

Fischer has an obsession with detail that, to my non-medical eye, appears autistic. **WOW! INTERESTING OBSERVATION! HOLLYWOOD! HOLLYWOOD! CALLING DUSTIN HOFFMAN!

When he recites his suffering at the hands of the US and now the Japanese, every letter he has received is cited, dated, described exactly.

His is a world of tiny details; it is the bigger picture that eludes him, so he falls back on one stupid overarching theory...

YES, ANOTHER HOWARD HUGHES. WHO WILL PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIES?

QUOTE: Former British champion Bill Hartston once observed that "chess doesn't drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane". Fischer was obsessed by chess and his goal of becoming world champion. "All I want to do, ever, is play chess," was the mantra of the young Fischer. When he stopped playing after 1972, he lost the cornerstone of his life and his world crumbled.

KEY POINT TO BOBBY'S ANTISEMITISM HERE: In the late 1970s he turned to Christian religion - in the form of the Pasadena-based Worldwide Church of God - to fill the vacuum.....

[torasan]

Editorial in Washington Post says:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5682-2005Mar27.html

"MR. FISCHER IS a true Icelander now," said Thordur Oskarsson, Iceland's ambassador to Japan, after the tiny island nation's Parliament unanimously voted to confer citizenship upon chess legend Bobby Fischer. ......

But the Parliament of a democratic nation ought not to ignore the depths to which he has fallen since he walked away from glory. .......

Mr. Fischer, clearly deeply unbalanced, should perhaps be considered a subject of pity, rather than hatred. But he should certainly not be a subject of legislative honor -- not unless his new countrymen want their nation shamed every time this chessman opens his mouth.

[emperor]

Apples' "Think Different" campaign seems to have worked on Bobby

[Taro Toporific]

Apples' "Think Different" campaign seems to have worked on Bobby

It looks like Bobby's got some likeminded friends.

See the Icelandic Apple TV CM at the bottom of this page.

Here's Bobby at the Kringlan mall.
http://www.apple.is/

[Taro Toporific]

BOXING FOR BOBBY FISCHER

World Chess Boxing Organization...a new sport ... No. 1 thinking sport and the No. 1 fighting sport, and in the combination of both. ... In a contest there shall be 11 rounds, 6 rounds of chess, 5 rounds of boxing. A round of chess takes 4 minutes. Each competitor has 12 minutes on the chess timer. As soon as the time runs out the game is over. A round of boxing takes 2 minutes. Between rounds there is a 1 minute pause, during which competitors change their gear.

Interview with Bobby Fischer..the old chess is finished as a competional sport for professionals... it has lost its challenge as a competitive sport on professional basis because it has been computerized, and just a question of memorising variations..."