Word: fischer
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...Then, in 1992, Fischer resurfaced to play a rematch with Spassky in Yugoslavia, where Americans were forbidden from doing business because of its government's support of Serbian aggression in Bosnia...
...press conference before the match, Fischer spat on a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department telling him not to play. He beat Spassky and pocketed a $3.35 million prize, and a U.S. federal warrant was issued for his arrest. Faced with a possible penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for violating America's economic sanctions, he has never returned to the States...
...more than a decade, Fischer crisscrossed the globe, passing through Hungary, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea. By 2000, Japan and the Philippines had become his primary home bases, and he reportedly reveled in the relative anonymity they afforded him. Yet Fischer never truly went into hiding. He traveled using his real identity and passport, and he twice dared to pass directly under the U.S. government's nose. In 1997, Fischer renewed his passport at the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and he returned there in 2003 to get 20 new passport pages...
...Watai acknowledges that Fischer is an extreme personality with controversial views, but she asks for special consideration, saying he should be seen as "a special genius who really needs support in order to retain the happiness that he has found." She says she has known him for more than 30 years and, after a long correspondence and several visits, settled down with him in 2000. Their life together has been quiet, she tells Time: they listen to 1950s crooner Jackie Wilson, discuss chess techniques, and eat in most nights. "Our life is ordinary," she says, adding that Fischer is well...
...Watai's talk of marriage plans has aroused suspicions that it might merely be a ploy to prevent Fischer from being deported. But Watai swears it's true love. Likewise, she dismisses as "untrue" recent press reports that claim Fischer already has a wife and child in the Philippines whom he sees every few months. While legal experts say marrying Watai might substantially improve Japan's willingness to let Fischer stay in the country, Fischer's application is now caught in a catch-22: one of the documents he needs to submit to get married in Japan is a valid...