The unauthorized documentary

RECLUSE BOBBY STILL FIGHTING HIS BATTLES
By ANDY SOLTIS

May 13, 2007 — CHESS IT’S been two years since Bobby Fischer last made headlines, when he won a battle of wills with Japan and was freed from prison to start a new life in Iceland.

But the reclusive Fischer, who turned 64 last month, hasn’t gone underground again.

Last week “The RJF Campaign,” an Icelandic organization representing him, complained that a policeman who protected Fischer during the 1972 world championship match and befriended him is helping to make an unauthorized documentary.

It alleged that material for “My Friend Bobby” was obtained from Fischer by “fraud” and that he thought the film was to be about his legal struggle with Japanese authorities, who seized him in 2004 on a visa violation.

Fischer also maintains a public presence by making bizarre contributions to his Web site. This includes extensive correspondence he had with a Swiss bank over a $3 million-plus account that the bank tried to transfer back to him – but which Fischer refused to accept and now claims was stolen from him.

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