Jim West On Chess: Vasiljevic Extradited to Serbia

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Vasiljevic Extradited to Serbia

[photo by Blic.rs]

Fugitive banker Jezdimir Vasiljevic [pictured above], who sponsored the rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1992, has been extradited to Serbia from the Netherlands.

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov