| Liam Too 2005-03-08, 6:55 am |
| Icelanders demand Bobby Fischer's release
Mainichi Daily News
Saturday, March 5, 2005
Two Icelanders who were central figures at the scene of Bobby Fischer's
greatest ever chess triumph urged authorities in Tokyo on Friday to
release the grandmaster incarcerated in the East Japan Immigration
Bureau Detention Center and allow him to leave for Iceland.
Gudmunder G. Thorarinsson, the organizer of the 1972 World Chess
Championship match in Reykjavik, said, "We may be discussing here a
human tragedy in the making. We are discussing the situation of perhaps
the greatest chess genius who has ever walked on this earth."
Thorarinsson spoke in glowing terms to reporters at the Foreign
Correspondents' Club of Japan about Fischer's 1972 victory over Boris
Spassky where he was "hailed in the United States."
"In Iceland we called this match (Between Fischer and Spassky) in the
beginning 'The Match of the Century.' I, myself thought this might be a
little over-ambitious. Later, it became clear to me that it was an
understatement," he said.
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