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Activists of «PRORIV!" have appealed to the newly elected US president Barack Obama

English // 08:50, 27 ноября 2008 // 2496
Today in IYC "PRORIV!" took place the chess tournament devoted to the memory of the outstanding American Grand Master Robert Fisher.
Participants of the tournament have appealed to the newly elected US president Barack Obama with a appeal about posthumous rehabilitation of the great chess player. As it is known, his last years, since 1992 and up to the death in January, 2008, Robert Fisher was prohibited to stay at the territory of the USA Other way he was threatened with long prison term. Fisher's participation in a match with Boris Spasskiy became the reason of the conflict with American authorities. The match was held at the territory of Yugoslavia, which was in boycott position, declared by US authorities.

The inquiry of news agency Lenta PMR
Robert James Fisher - the legendary American chess player. His name is known round the world. He is recognized as one of the talented and most mysterious grand masters of all history of the game.
HE began to play chess at six years, at 13 he became a champion of the USA among junior, at 15 - the youngest chess grand master in the history of the game.
Experts predicted the brilliant future to the American grand master, naming him a potential world champion. Fisher had absolutely everything for this. For his time he knew perfectly the debut theory, and he had finished many positions himself, he possessed the very good techniques, he perfectly understood a position and in any situation played on a victory. In 19 years the American had taken part in tournament of applicants - then the system of draw of a title of the world champion was very accurate, but he could not win.
He had explained the defeat by imperfection of chess system and great quantity of chess players from the USSR then he made the statement that he would not struggle for the title of the world champion. For some years Fisher had really left in a shade, but he had again begun to struggle for a crown in the second half of 60’s.
He has passed all the selection stages and he crushed the great Soviet chess player Tigran Petrosyan in a solving elimination match and had achieved the right for the champion duel with Boris Spasskiy.
This match took place from July till September in Reykjavik in 1972. Fisher has amazed the chess world not only with a magnificent game. After he defeated the world champion Boris Spasskiy Bob Fisher has been awarded by a laurel wreath.
In the USA its champion title was propagandized as a victory of the young and independent American citizen over the Soviet system, and Fisher has been named "the ideal sample for imitation". It was said, that IQ of  the new champion was higher than Albert Einstein had, but the talent  is immense.
After Fisher's refusal in 1975 to play with Karpov he disappeared from attention of the press and admirers for a long time. Nobody knew anything about his life, except scrappy information.
At the beginning of 90's he lived lonely in California, and then suddenly agreed on a repeated match with Spasskiy and has won it with the score 10:5.
After the victory Fisher could not miss the possibility to show to the entire world the attitude to the USA which he expressed only in sharp tones, criticizing foreign policy of Washington.
As a result Fisher's behavior was taken up by the FBI. They gave out the warrant on his arrest for infringement of the international sanctions against Yugoslavia. Fisher disappeared from prosecution of the USA at first in Europe, then in Malaysia and on Philippines and, at last, in Japan.
The Japanese authorities have received the inquiry from the USA about Fisher's extradition. On July, 13th, 2004 in Tokyo airport Narita he has been arrested and set into the prison for illegal immigrants. His stay in the conclusion was supposed to be of a short term and should end in the USA; however Fisher was helped by his sparse friends and numerous admirers.
Lawyers of the grand master have suggested him to direct the inquiry about reception of citizenship of Iceland. As a result the country parliament has voted for the Fisher's citizenship of Iceland. The legendary chess player has received the Icelandic passport in March, 2005 and at this very day he has left Japan for Iceland. Here he has finished his life - on January, 17th, 2008 in one of the hospitals of Reykjavik after two-month illness the most ingenious chess player of the world Robert James Fisher has died.

"I will never play classical chess but if I will sometime return I will be the best in the world».