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PEOPLE, Page 71War Games
By MICHAEL QUINN
It may be a match made in heaven, but it will take place
only a short distance from hell. BOBBY FISCHER, the reclusive
Garbo of the chessboard, is ending his 20-year exile from the
game in a September duel with his old opponent, Boris Spassky.
Top prize: $3.35 million. But the venue is as unexpected as the
champion's return: Yugoslavia, now facing U.N. sanctions --
including a ban on sports contacts -- for the murderous "ethnic
cleansing" of neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. Still, it would be
unfair to suggest that the 49-year-old Fischer is unconcerned
about the carnage taking place some hundred miles from the
Sveti Stefan resort island, where the match will begin: indeed,
he demands the right to move the contest to another site if
noise from the nearby war disturbs the master's concentration.