Biografia

Fischer was wanted in the United States for violating economic sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there in 1992. He fled to Japan and was arrested in July 2004 for trying to leave Japan on a revoked U.S. passport. Thus, he was detained in Japan awaiting deportation to the United States. He renounced his U.S. citizenship and tried to become a German citizen, but was denied. Finally, in March 2005, Iceland's parliament voted to grant him Icelandic citizenship. He remained a fugitive in the U.S. until his death.

Due to his anti-American and anti-Semitic statements, he became a controversial figure in the final decades of his life. He, for example, asked the editors of Encyclopedia Judaica to remove his name from the publication because he was not, and had never been, Jewish (1984) and denied the Holocaust in several interviews. On a radio show shortly after the 9/11 attacks, he proclaimed them "a wonderful news" (2001).

Attended Erasmus Hall High School together with Barbra Streisand.

Inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2001 (one of five charter inductees).

Only American to win the FIDE World Chess Championship (1 September 1972).

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Chess is life.

Chess requires full concentration

Nothing heals like human warmth

There is nothing to learn at school. Teachers are stupid. Women should not be allowed to work as teachers. At my school, only the physical education teacher was not stupid - he played chess well