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posted 1 year ago by WeimerSolutions on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +50Score on mirror )
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llamatr0n on scored.co
1 year ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror )
I think this needs a bit of background.

The film released in 2001.

In 1992, Fischer played an unofficial rematch against Boris Spassky, held in Yugoslavia. The US govt. warned Fischer that would violate Clinton's executive order imposing sanctions on Yugoslavia. The DoJ issued a arrest warrant and Fischer never returned to the US, instead living as an émigré.

In 2004, he was arrested in Japan and held for several months for using a passport that the US government had revoked. Eventually, he was granted Icelandic citizenship by a special act of the Icelandic parliament, allowing him to live there until his death in 2008.
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