DNA tests showed that the nine year old Filipino girl claiming for an estate is not the daughter of the late legendary chess player Robert James "Bobby" Fischer, according to the lawyer of another claimant last Aug. 17.
Fischer lived in the Philippines, Japan, and Iceland among other countries during his later years in his avoidance to deportation to the United States. He was believed to be the father of the young Filipino girl who was born in 2001 whom her mother, Jinky Young claims.
Arni Vilhjalmsson, lawyer of Myoko Watai, the Japanese woman who claims to be Fischer’s wife, said that the Filipino girl cannot be the daughter of as per the test results that were submitted to a tribunal in Reykjavik last Aug 17.
Watai said that she married Fischer after he was detained by Japanese authorities for nine months in 2004 and 2005 under the threat of deportation to the US.
Fischer, who became controversial when he went for a rematch in 1992 against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia, roused conflict against the US government. He died aged 64 in Iceland Jan. 2008 and was exhumed July this year to resolve the paternity dispute.
Fischer’s estate, amounting to $2M is also being claimed by his two American nephews as well as by the US government, to whom he owed unpaid taxes. (AJPress)
( Published August 19, 2010 in Asian Journal Northern California p. A1 )
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