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Fischer 'must be deported to US' (BBC News)

Japan has announced that former chess champion Bobby Fischer can only be deported to the US and not to Iceland, as he had demanded.

People were deported to their home countries as a matter of principle, a Japanese official said.

The chess player has already been detained for eight months near Tokyo.

Chess Genius Kasparov Retires (Washington Post)

Garry Kasparov, the brilliant and aggressive tactician regarded by many as the greatest chess player of all time, has announced his retirement from professional play. He said he planned to write books and become more active in the politics of his native Russia, which he said was "headed down the wrong path."

Kasparov has emerged as an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and is playing a leading role in Committee 2008: Free Choice, a group formed by liberal opposition leaders. "I will do everything in my power to resist Putin's dictatorship," he said in a statement cited by the Interfax news agency on Friday.

Kasparov, 41, has been ranked No. 1 in the world since 1984 and has applied his formidable energy, discipline and intellect to dominate chess for two decades. His announcement came shortly after he won the 14-match Linares tournament in Spain.

Archaeologists tackle chess puzzle (Guardian, UK)

A grubby green cousin of the world's most famous chessmen is puzzling archaeologists.

The little knight on horseback, recently found by an amateur using a metal detector on farmland in north Nottinghamshire, is startlingly similar to chesspieces found hundreds of miles away in 1831, on a beach on the isle of Lewis.

Not being of great commercial value, but of immense historic importance, the knight is the sort of find that might not previously have been reported.

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