Bobby Fischer, the one-time chess champion who espouses anti-Semitism, may be indicted by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and returned to the United States. Fischer, who won the world chess championship in Iceland in 1972 in a widely watched match, now lives in Japan, where he periodically surfaces with bursts of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric.
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