IT would be hard to explain to anyone under, say, 40, the international excitement that surrounded America’s Bobby Fischer’s dethronement of Soviet Grandmaster and chess world champion Boris Spassky in 1972.

Controversial former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64 in his adopted home of Iceland.

Montenegro’s government is looking to lease the exclusive Sveti Stefan resort on the Adriatic Sea, a former summer mecca for Hollywood stars that has fallen into decline since the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

REBEL chess legend Bobby Fischer yesterday declared he was finished with a chess world he regards as corrupt.

Chess legend Bobby Fischer landed in Denmark for a brief stopover today on the journey to his new home, Iceland, after being released from nine months in a Japanese detention centre.

American chess champion Bobby Fischer could be deported to the United States to face tax evasion charges there, it was reported today.

Icelandic immigration authorities agreed today to grant former American chess champion Bobby Fischer a special foreigners' passport which would allow him to travel to western Europe.

Iceland is considering granting citizenship to United States chess legend Bobby Fischer, a parliamentary official said in Reykjavik today.

Iceland has approved a residency permit for Bobby Fischer, but the former chess champion faces hurdles in travelling there because he remains in Japanese custody and lacks a valid passport.

Lawyers have exchanged documents in the first court hearing on detained former chess champion Bobby Fischer’s battle against deportation to the United States.

Troubled former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has won a temporary reprieve from deportation to the US by Japan.

JAPAN rejected former chess champion Bobby Fischer's demand for protection as a political refugee yesterday and issued an order to deport him.

FORMER world chess champion Boris Spassky has appealed to US President George W Bush to show mercy to former rival Bobby Fischer and not seek his extradition from Japan, according to a copy of a letter faxed to the media.

FUGITIVE US chess master Bobby Fischer has applied for political asylum in Japan in a new bid to avoid being deported to the United States, where he could face a jail term.

Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer plans to appeal against a deportation order to the United States next week for the second time and to apply for temporary freedom from a detention centre in Japan, an adviser said today.

Japanese immigration officials have rejected former world chess champion Bobby Fischer’s appeal against their decision to deport him for attempting to travel on an invalid US passport.

FORMER world chess champion Bobby Fischer has appealed against Japanese moves to deport him to the US for travelling on an invalid passport and is seeking political asylum.

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has appealed against Japanese move to deport him to the US for travelling on an invalid passport and is seeking political asylum.

It was not the best move he ever made. After more than 10 years of evading the public eye and US justice officials, former world champion Bobby Fischer has been arrested by Japanese immigration officials after trying to leave the country with an invalid passport.

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has been arrested in Japan by immigration authorities, capping a more than decade-long hunt by US authorities for the elusive legend.

THE body of the Irish soldier killed in Iraq with the British Army, Lance Corporal Ian Keith Malone, was flown back along with six other bodies to a British air base yesterday.