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Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Is Chess Champion Bobby Fischer the father of a Pinay girl?

A NINE-year-old Filipino girl may inherit more than $2 million if it is proven that she is the legal heir of the legendary US chess champion Bobby Fischer, who died in 2008.

Former chess champion Bobby Fischer’s body was exhumed earlier this week to determine if Fischer is indeed the father of Jinky Young, whose mother Marilyn claims that she is Fischer’s daughter.

Iceland’s Supreme Court overturned an earlier ruling from a lower court to allow the body to be exhumed.

“At this point we are just trying to establish this,” said Thordur Bogason to the AP. Bogason, along with Filipino lawyer Samuel Estimo is representing Marilyn Young and filed the paternity suit on Jinky’s behalf. “And if she is confirmed as the daughter of Bobby Fischer, then by Icelandic law she is his legal heir.”

The body was exhumed and immediately reburied after tissue samples were taken, according to reports.

Bogason said when he filed the paternity suit, he presented evidence to the Iceland Supreme Court — photographs, Jinky’s birth certificate, and bank statements that showed Fischer financially supporting Marilyn and the child in the past eight years.

Fischer passed away in Iceland at the age of 64 on January of 2008. Bogason told AP that Fischer left no will and that there are several legal cases over who has the right to the former chess champion’s estate.

Fischer, a child chess prodigy and arguably one of the greatest chess players of all time, spent the past two decades as a US fugitive after competing in Yugoslavia in 1992, then under a United Nations embargo. He spent time in Europe, the Philippines and Japan before settling in Iceland.

Born in Chicago but raised in New York, Fischer rose to prominence in the 1950’s when he became the youngest chess grandmaster at the age of 15. (Joseph Pimentel/AJPress)

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