Searching for Bobby Fischer No More

After an international hunt that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already.) Fischer has been a wanted man since 1992 when, in violation of a U.S. ban, he headed to Yugoslavia for a highly publicized rematch with his cold war--era rival Boris Spassky, whom Fischer had defeated 20 years earlier in Reykjavik to become the first American world chess champ. Fischer beat Spassky again in 1992 and won $3.3 million. Since then the eccentric grand master has been living secretly in the Philippines,...

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