From: "jay hack" <jay.hack@execnet.com>
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Date: 17 Aug 92 03:12:44 EST
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   ''Fischer's got to survive the first four games. If he does he
could win 10  of the next 20 games easily. I can't see him playing
again, though. He'll just  retire,'' Keene said.

   Despite the confidence of promoter Jezdimir Vasiljevic, a
Yugoslav  businessman, that the match starting on September 2 will
go ahead, many believe  Fischer could still pull out.

   And no one is quite clear why he agreed to play.

   ''He is not playing just for the money,'' said Wade. ''Finance
has never been  a main issue in his life -- only the status it
gives a  chess  event.''

   Others suggest Fischer may have been driven by a desire to
secure his place  in  chess  history, many noting that his decision
followed the recent death of  another former world champion,
Mikhail Tal of Latvia.

   ''Tal's death was a great shock. He was one of the few players
with a plus  score against Fischer and Fischer realised that his
chances of establishing  himself in the pantheon of  chess  greats
could wait no longer,'' said Keene.

                United Press International 1992

                       August  14, 1992, Friday, BC cycle

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   The Treasury Department has informed U.S.  chess  great Bobby
Fischer that  his planned $5 million rematch in Montenegro against
Russian Boris Spassky  violates the economic embargo against
Yugoslavia's central government.

    The match was scheduled to begin Sept. 2. The Treasury
Department said  Fischer's lawyer was informed last week that the
chess  game would violate the  sanctions against the strife-torn
nation.

    The embargo forbids any and all economic activity -- not just
activity  involving the Yugo governments under pressure but also
those of private citizens  of both sides in the conflict.

    A White House executive order of May 30, issued right after
passage of U.N.  Resolution 757, directed the Treasury Department
to freeze all U.S. assets of  those governments. It extends beyond
freezing bank accounts to physical  property, and all transactions
involving the movement of anything of economic  value to anyone in
Serbia and Montenegro.

                              The Washington Post

                     August  14, 1992, Friday, Final Edition

HEADLINE: The King Is Back -- Or Is He?

BYLINE: Charles Krauthammer

DATELINE: EAST HAMPTON, N.Y.

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   Millions await the return of Elvis. I've been waiting for Bobby.
Fischer,  that is. The king of  chess.  The greatest player who
ever lived. The man who 20  years ago won the world championship,
then vanished.

   We know he is alive. Fischer sightings, though less frequent
than Elvis  sightings, are somewhat more reliable. He has been
spotted among the alcoholics  and homeless in rundown parts of Los
Angeles. He talks to almost no one. And if  anyone he does talk to
talks to the press, he never hears from Bobby again.

   Twenty years of total withdrawal. Twenty years of silence.
Twenty years  without a single recorded game of  chess  (that we
know of). Then late last  month, the electrifying news: Bobby's
back. A Yugoslav promoter announces that  Fischer has agreed to
play again, a $ 5 million rematch with Boris Spassky, the  world
champion he dethroned in 1972.

   Where does Bobby surface? In Belgrade, capital of an outlaw
state. The match  will be played in Serbia in defiance of
international sanctions. This, of  course, fits Fischer perfectly.
He has hated every authority he has ever dealt  with, starting with
the international  chess  authorities whom he saw (sometimes  not
without reason) as plotting against him.

   When I told a journalist friend that Bobby's second coming was
scheduled for  Belgrade, he replied, "Why didn't he go all the way
and make it Sarajevo?"  Belgrade is, shall we say, an eccentric
choice for a coming out. But in Fischer,  eccentricity and genius
are hard to separate.

   His genius is undeniable. As a boy he was called the Mozart of
chess.  At  13, he played a game of such brilliance (against Donald
Byrne) that it became  known as the "Game of the Century." At 15,
he became the youngest grandmaster in  history.
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