The end of Fischer’s chess wars
January 19, 2008 – 3:25 amIn reference to Bobby Fischer’s violation of the US ban on Serbia when in 1992 he playing a chess rematch with Spassky on an island in the Adriatic Sea that was part of Yugoslavia, then under United Nations sanctions, Serbian daily Danas while commenting on Bobby Fischer who just died at the age of 64 in his adopted country Iceland:
“It looks paradoxical that some countries can lead wars without the UN approval and having never to answer for that, yet someone who is in a war with wooden figures on the chess table can be sentenced to a decade in prison!?”
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