Crimes against chess

Bobby Fischer has been released from a Japanese jail and is apparently headed to Iceland. He is happy to be free but unhappy with Bush and Koizumi:

"I won't be free until I get out of Japan," he told a crowd of reporters at the airport here before boarding his flight to Copenhagen en route to Reykjavik. "This was not an arrest. It was a kidnapping cooked up by Bush and Koizumi," he said, referring to President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

"They are war criminals and should be hung," he said.

Fischer, 62, was in high spirits and characteristically defiant as he arrived at the airport.

As he walked toward the airport entrance, he turned, unzipped his pants and acted like he was going to urinate on the wall. He called Japan's ruling party "gangsters," and said he was being hounded by the United States because it is "Jew-controlled."

Fischer claims his U.S. passport was revoked illegally and sued to block a deportation order to the United States, where he is wanted for violating sanctions imposed on the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match against Russian Boris Spassky in 1992.

Do all chess-player superstars carry on like this? (Go here for a post-release photo of the weirdo.)

Update: It's easy to see why he's widely regarded as a paranoid anti-Semite:

“The United States is an illegitimate country . . . just like the bandit state of Israel — the Jews have no right to be there, it belongs to the Palestinians,” he told an interviewer aboard the flight. “It’s actually a shame to be a so-called American because everybody living there is . . . an invader.”

So good at chess, so fucking stupid ...