Bailing Out Bobby Fischer

ABCNEWS.com : Japan Detains Ex-Chess Champ Bobby Fischer

I am a tournament level chess player and have always been an admirer of Bobby Fischer. His chess games are nothing short of brilliant (his political views however are way out whack). Now like most fans I couldn’t wait for “Bobby the Fish” to play Spassky again, and secretly hoped he’d make a comeback and go after Kasparov. While he did beat Spassky, a comeback was not in the plans, he took the money and ran to Brazil to promote his own agenda “Fischer Chess“.

The problem is along the way to his match with Spassky he ran afoul of some UN Trade Sanctions and caught the ire of the US Government. Maybe the chess fan inside of me is tainting my better judgment, but I don’t think Bobby Fischer’s game really made any difference in the Yugoslavia conflict. Yeah he’s weird, and he’s says some totally whacked out stuff pretty regularly, but C’mon is it really worth the time the effort and money for us to prosecute him?

LET BOBBY GO!

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3 Responses to “Bailing Out Bobby Fischer”

1. Anonymous Says:
   July 25th, 2004 at 11:12 am

   Now, regarding Bobby Fischer’s detention room at Narita Airport,
   here’s the inside skinny so to speak. Bobby-san is in the B-4
   underground level of the Airport complex, and he is in a room with 8-9
   other detainess, some of whom will leave for the home countries soon,
   others who must wait for a papers to be completed before then can be
   deported. Bobby is in a room that has a tatami floor, and there is a
   clean toilet in the room for all cellmates to use. He is fed good
   Japanese food three times a day, large helpings of rice, porridge,
   fish, meats, vegetables and soups. Fruit too. At lights out at 9 pm,
   he must sleep on a futon on the floor with the other cellmates, and an
   electric light is on all night, according to inside sources who know
   the set up there. The guards are friendly but firm. They feel sorry
   for Bobby but they are following orders and if he gives them any
   trouble, they will handle him that way. If he gets too rambuctious, he
   will be put in a straitjacket room and kept solitary and incommunicato
   until he decides to be more friendly. However, for now he is in the
   main detainee room, green walls, tatami floor, toilet and a slot for
   food to be passed in to the men there.

   There is no exercise there, just the detention cell. If he stays for
   more than 20 days, he will be taken to Kosuge Jail in downtown Tokyo,
   an hour from the airport by prison bus, where he will be roped to
   other prisoners, er, detainees. His hands will also be cuffed to the
   bars behind each bus seat. At the Tokyo Detention House, or Kosuge, he
   will be kept in a solitary cell, toilet inside the room, big enough
   for a futon on the floor and that’s it. A window, barred of course,
   will give him a view of the inside courtyard with trees and grass. He
   can hear the birds singing in the morning.

   At deportation time, Bobby-san will be taken back to Narita Airport B4
   level, and processed out. He will be escorted by two immigration
   policemen, with his hands in handcuffs, yes, but there is a polite
   blue cloth covering the handcuffs so that passersby and passengers in
   the public terminal on the ground floor of the aiport will not SEE the
   handcuffs. But they will see Bobby in his humiliatin, escorted by the
   two beefy immig cops, all the way to the airplane that will fly him
   back to the USA. He must return to USA, period. He cannot be deported
   to a third country. He is heading to the USA, period.

   At the boarding gate for the internatioinal flight home, Bobby’s
   handcuffs will be taken off and he will invited to enter the
   airplane’s cabin. If he doesn’t enter, there could be trouble.

   NOTES FROM SOMEONE WHO’s BEEN THERE DONE THAT AT NARITA KUKO

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   July 25th, 2004 at 11:21 am

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   July 25th, 2004 at 11:21 am

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