Fischer finished with 'corrupt' chess world

Bobby Fischer met the press today, his hair and beard neatly trimmed but his opinions still bristling, and declared he was finished with a chess world he regards as corrupt.

Fischer finished with 'corrupt' chess world

Bobby Fischer met the press today, his hair and beard neatly trimmed but his opinions still bristling, and declared he was finished with a chess world he regards as corrupt.

The flawed chess genius Fischer said he was happy to be in Iceland, which granted him citizenship to pave the way for his release from detention in Japan, where he was held on a US extradition warrant.

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