  Bobby Fischer, best known to those of us of a younger generation as the subject of the film urlLink Searching for Bobby Fischer but really an international chess champion actually known for winning a 1972 match against Boris Spassky -- is in a urlLink bad state these days . He's been detained in Tokyo and is afraid of being assassinated if he's extradited to the U.S., where he is wanted because he violated economic sanctions in 1992 when he went to Yugoslavia for a rematch against Spassky. Salon's got an interesting piece on him. 
