Bobby Fischer's final bizarre act

[spinbaby]

The American chess prodigy's eccentricities didn't end with his death. As Neil Tweedie discovered in Reykjavik this week, the reclusive genius had arranged his own secret 'guerrilla' burial. Now its legality is being questioned

The grave was dug in secret as darkness descended over the white frozen landscape around the village of Hraungerdi, ready for Bobby Fischer's last getaway. Not even the minister whose churchyard it was knew of the funeral planned for the following morning.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2008/01/25/ftfischer125.xml

[Duer 157099]

1. He probably didn't want Phelps to show up

Might start a trend actually

[rockymountaindem]

4. Why not?

They apparently both hated America to the same degree. Fisher, however, probably had some mental instability that mitigates his nuttiness. Phelps is just an irrational hater.

[NewJeffCT]

2. What - does he think he's Genghis Khan or something?

wasn't he the one who was buried with everybody who dug his tomb so nobody could find his grave?

[DS1]

5. who buried those people?

[edbermac]

3. I miss Bobby; he was my kind of lunatic.

:cry: