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Bobby Fischer is back in Iceland, and that is as it should be. Fischer put Iceland on the map for the first time since the Vikings happened by. And Iceland put Fischer on the map, providing the venue for his greatest triumph, the 1972 world chess championship. That was before he fell off a psychic cliff...
...ruled his career ever since. At the championships she sat motionless each day in the same third-row seat, watching intensely. Though he now wears the crown, Kasparov, raised in the republic of Azerbaijan, 1,200 miles south of Moscow, remains an outsider to Moscow's powerful chess establishment. "My relationship with the federation," he concedes, "couldn't be worse...
Karpov, on the other hand, is what a Swiss newspaper called Homo sovieticus: a culture hero with close ties to the late leader Leonid Brezhnev, recipient of the Order of Lenin and a strong voice in the inner circle of Soviet chess. Owner of an impressive collection of rare stamps, the chilly and distant Muscovite is a well-known ruble millionaire who is rumored to be a dollar one as well. Although he enjoys rare Soviet amenities like a mobile telephone in his car, Karpov does not ignite the imagination. "Style?" he once puzzled. "I have no style...
...flurry of popular products, including Sidekick, an organizing aid for executives, and Turbo Gameworks, for chess and bridge buffs, followed. Kahn soon collected all the touches of the Silicon Valley good life: a Porsche, a 37-ft. sailboat and a lavish home equipped with a family-size hot tub for his wife and two children. Last month, with his bustling company now ensconced in new quarters, Kahn finally found time to correct the status of his residency in the U.S. After flying home to France, where he has become something of a national hero in absentia, Kahn stopped...
...kitchen table in Sydney's south, Liu Xiao Xian is "playing" chess on his laptop computer screen. Actually, he's clicking on images from his 2001 wooden sculpture, Game, in which meticulously carved Chinese and European pieces face off across a chess board. It's a typically disarming work from Liu, 41, whose photos and installations speak eloquently of his shift to Australia in 1990. "There are no rules how to move," he says. "That's been my experience - how to make the negotiation? How to make it workable?" With recent work taking center stage at the Art Gallery...