Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer's Icelandic citizenship has been finalized and his supporters hope he can fly to Iceland this week, ending a lengthy detention in Japan and avoiding deportation to the United States.
Fischer -- wanted in the United States for violating sanctions against former Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there in 1992 -- has been detained in Japan since July, when he was arrested for traveling on what U.S. officials said was an invalid passport.
Iceland's parliament had granted Fischer, 62, citizenship on Monday, opening the door for the fugitive American to settle in the tiny North Atlantic republic where he won the world title in 1972 in a classic Cold War encounter with Soviet champion Boris Spassky, a victory that made him something of a hero in Iceland.
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