Thursday, 24 March, 2005

en Passant Bobby Fischer was on his way to Iceland yesterday, he seems to have gotten as far as Denmark at least. There were a number of media stories on this here are two from the Guardian about 24 hours apart as this story evolved.  The Fischer king  from Wednesday and  Fischer moves. I like the title puns. This is a nice gesture by Iceland - they had to grant him citizenship to accomplish this, but I wonder if they know what they are getting into. Fischer seems absolutely mad at times. At the same time it may be easier to fall into the role of bilious old man than some think, particularly if you are adolation starved and think it is bringing you attention. The U.S Goverment has taken on a churlish cast throughout the last six months, since they had the Japanese lock him up. They can't really say they care about the chess match in Yugoslavia, they didn't do anything about it for ten years except prevent him from coming back to the US. It really seems to have been his statements on September 11th, and al qeada. To care what Bobby Fischer in his lost junketing nervous breakdown existence says about that or anything else betrays a remarkable and painfully thin-skinned state of being.  11:51:52 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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