TOKYO: Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer appealed to US Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday to help him renounce US citizenship as he announced plans to marry a leading Japanese chess official, his lawyer said.
Fischer, wanted in the United States for allegedly violating international sanctions on the former Yugoslavia, was detained in Japan last month when trying to travel on a revoked American passport.
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