I think he was exempted from taxes and owed no single cent for a country that apprehended him and wants him jailed for playing a peaceful world chess event reflecting a human milestone.

Yojan,

I think that making my wife my manager could be the worse move I could make.

Hi Pawn!

A good defense system i suggest....hhhmmm..make your Wife your Manager!:-)

Yojan,

comic book heroes do wear masks for sure to protect their identities. I think that real heroes choose other ways of  protecting their identitied, some are fit for purpose, and others ways of defence do more harm than good. I think Bobby chose badly, and his defence system did him more harm than good. What is a good defence system? You tell me. I'm still working on producing one.

controversies didn't left him after death also.

Bobby Fischer made headlines in the U.S. while he was playing; unfortunately, many of the stories were about the strange and quirky demands he made of tournament officials.   Americans greatly admired his chess skills but were embarassed by his childish behavior.

We were very proud when he won the world chess championship but his refusal to defend it and his abrupt departure from chess at the very peak of his career severely hurt his reputation.  We will always wonder but never know how many years Bobby could have maintained the title of champion.  It's sad to think of the brilliant games which might have been added to his collection, but were never played.

Time heals many wounds.  Today Bobby Fischer would be remembered mainly for his chess brilliance were it not for the last part of his life, where he used his fame and reputation as a platform to spread hatred of others.  Unfortunately, this opened many wounds in the U.S. that won't be forgotten soon.  I believe future generations will overlook the failures of his personal life to focus on his accomplishments, just as we do for a multitude of other famous figures from history, but this rehabilitation will not be soon.

it's a pity the U.S.don't know how to respect one of their greatest talents

"Nothing eases suffering like Human touch", the last words from Mr. Fischer before he died. and it seems there is no end to his suffering even to his death.

This is how a real life hero in his own country treated as a villain and exhiled from his own land not to set foot back again. and haunted in his grave by his so called mother land because of unpaid taxes!!! no wonder why Comic book Super Heroes Wear Mask...think about it?

I think Mr. Klein put it quite nicely in his excellent article, "Searching for Fischer's Legacy".

http://tinyurl.com/28obebe

it's a pity the U.S. don't know how to respect one of their greatest talents

The odd thing was I learnt about the exhumation from my local paper, kinda odd to see chess news in a reasonably smal paper and all. Just shows that even now Bobby is big news; but like Natalia says its just a shame that chess hits the headlines for stories which are lets say less than positive and all.

I remember an episode of Law and Order:Criminal Intent about an American grandmaster who broke bad because he was prohibited from playing chess for some reason. He was cornered by Vincent D'Onoforio at a kid's chess congress and went so far as to have a knife at a youngser's throat before Bobby Goren talked him out of it. "You don't want to harm these children" and in effect the game he loved.

The detective's final comment was "That's what happens when you stop people doing what they're good at."

Any resemblance to Fischer is purely coincidental.

the us going after taxes?

doesn't manny rameriez make more money in one game than bobby did over his whole career

come on

excellent post VLMJ. in response to those claiming he should be left alone, I wont say it is a wrong or right thing. however, when one goes against the wishes of the US government, there are no end to the troubles, even beyond death it seems! it seems like the US is always playing with an extra 2 queens...

Screw the US government. For god's sake, let the man rest in peace.

FIDE president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Then he appeared to deny it. The thing is that he didn't really deny it at all. He denied claiming to be an alien spy. Then he said that beliefs in extraterrestrials are personal, like a religious belief, and it was bizarre how freely he spoke detailing facts about UFOs, and strange witches with magical powers that could see aliens walking among us. It was like someone denying that they're an anti-semite, but then talking at length about the glory of the Third Reich:

(That is not a photo of a swastika, and that gentleman was not an anti-semite.)

I think Fischer's reply to the typical anti-semite accusation was, 'Anti-semite? I am not. I'm definitely not anti-Arab.' Which was an interesting twist, since semitic languages include Arabic. The term anti-semite of course, wasn't invented by the Third Reich, but by German journalist Wilhelm Mars in a pre-Hitlerian pamphlet called, "The Victory of Germandom over Jewry". Using ideas of race and nationalism, Mars argued that Jews had become the first major power in the West. He accused them of being liberals, a people without roots who had Judaized Germans beyond salvation. It wasn't until 1879 that Mars founded the "League for Anti-Semitism", which was first reported to the press by his aspiring student, Helen Thomas.

Fischer would have probably not been happy about the U.S. getting it's tax money.

There is a Latin proverb: De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: suggested advice, to all of us that one should speak well of the recently dead or remain silent about them. I believe that that admonition is true today as it has been in the past -- at least for those who consider that belief to be, at the least, good manners, and at the most, kind and prayerful and thoughtful behavior for all of us who will eventually follow.  Can't we at least respect the God-given talent that Bobby was blessed with and be grateful for the great chess heritage he has left us?  And can't we be more understanding of serious mental illness that many in this imperfect world  sorrowfully experience and suffer, illness that often displays itself in ways that Bobby Fischer has shown?  I don't understand the responses from some of us chess players that seem to show such anger and bitterness and hatred for one of our own, probably the greatest of all chess players so far, certainly one of the greatest.  Since becoming a member of Chess.com in 2008,I have seen many similar threads about Bobby -- and I truly believe that all of us should put this matter to rest and let Bobby rest in peace.

Bobby Fischer's Japanese wife, alleged Philippine love-child, two nephews, the US Government , money came from chess,let chess decide .the 64 square where fischer's legacy came from will tell who is the real claimant of his property,not dna.,,,i will play for the japanese wife.

Fischer died at the age of 64. The exact number of individual squares on a Chessboard. RIP Bobby. You were hated because you spoke your mind, even if others disagreed with you for it.