Bobby Fischer, who was being held in a Japanese prison for violating the trade embargo against the former Yugoslavia, will now be receiving an Icelandic passport. The Icelandic Parliament had debated the matter for weeks; they did not grant Fischer’s request for citizenship but did decide in favor of travel documents. Iceland, of course, had been the scene of Fischer’s first triumph over Spassky in 1972; Fischer remains an important figure in the Icelandic national psyche. Here is the full story.
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