Fischer Says He’ll Wed, Give Up U.S. Citizenship

Former chess champion Bobby Fischer announced plans to marry leading Japanese chess official Miyoko Watai and appealed to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to help him renounce U.S. citizenship. It was not clear how those moves might affect attempts to extradite him to the United States.

Fischer, wanted in the United States for violating international sanctions by playing a match in the former Yugoslavia in 1992, was detained in Japan last month while trying to travel on a revoked American passport.