U.S. Chess Master Bobby Fischer was issued an arrest warrant for playing a chess march in Yugoslavia.
Fischer was charged in 1992 with violating economic sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia. He came out of retirement to earn $5 million in a rematch against his old nemesis, Boris Spassky. Fischer never returned to the United States and eventually settled (and died) in Reykjavik after renunciating his American citizenship.
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