The Reykjavik District Court yesterday declared that Miyoko Watai was chess grand master Bobby Fischer’s legal wife after all. Read the full story

The results of a DNA test carried out on the exhumed corpse of chess legend Bobby Fischer indicate that he is not the father of Jinky Jong, Icelandic officials say. The results were passed to the Reykjavik District Court yesterday. Read the full story

(UPDATED AND CORRECTED) American newspaper The New York Post reported yesterday that Icelandic authorities had drilled through Bobby Fischer’s coffin and into his body in order to take a DNA sample from the exhumed chess grand master’s corpse. But the Selfoss district commissioner says the NYP got it wrong. Read the full story

“The Supreme Court’s judgement has been carried out,” answered Selfoss District Commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson when asked if Bobby Fischer’s remains have yet been exhumed. Read the full story

It has not yet been decided when the body of chess grand master Bobby Fischer will be exhumed; but the Supreme Court of Iceland ruled this week that it will happen. Read the full story

Chess legend Bobby Fischer, who died on January 17th, was recently buried at a country church in Iceland during a Catholic funeral service. Though the service itself may have been peaceful, the legal wrangling over Fischer’s million dollar fortune may be about to turn nasty.

In a Visir report published in Iceland last week, it was claimed that the £1.07 million estate of the late chess champion would pass to Miyoko Watai, Fischer’s supposed widow.

The report said: “It has been confirmed that Watai was Fischer’s wife, not his girlfriend as has been argued so many times.”

Russel Targ, Fischer’s brother-in-law, has flown to Iceland in order to pursue legal investigations into the matter of inheritance which he feels should belong to his two sons, according to Buzzle.com

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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer died yesterday in Iceland after a long battle with illness, according to Visir.is

Fischer was born 9th March 1943 in the US and became famous for beating Boris Spassky from the Soviet Union in 1972.

Fischer was wanted by the US for breaking international sanctions by playing a rematch against Spassky in the former Yugoslavia in 1992. He later renounced his American citizenship and was granted Icelandic citizenship as a way to avoid being deported the US.

Fischer lived in Japan for a few years before moving to Iceland in 2005. He is considered by many to be one of the best chess players of all time.