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- <text id=92TT1758>
- <title>
- Aug. 10, 1992: War Games
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 10, 1992 The Doomsday Plan
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 71
- War Games
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- <p>By Michael Quinn
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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