Iceland considers sanctuary for chess master

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS

The Icelandic Parliament is debating whether to offer former world chess master Bobby Fischer Icelandic citizenship. Fischer was the first American to win the World Championship of chess in 1972 in Reykjavík.

Fischer is wanted in the United States for violating United Nations sanctions by playing a chess match in Yugoslavia in 1992.

Fischer has never returned to Iceland, but he recently had a telephone interview with the Icelandic television station Stöd 2, in which he stated that he was being poisoned by a leaking nuclear reactor.

Asked if he wanted to move to Iceland he stated, “I want to get out of this fucking Japland.” He is currently in custody in Japan.

He also explained that if deported to the U.S., he will be murdered for beating Jews in chess, as “the country is full of Jews.”

Iceland is the nation with the greatest number of chess players per capita in the world.