19 June,2010 08:14 AM IST | | Agencies
The remains of Bobby Fischer (see pic), the former world chess champion, are to be exhumed to settle a bitter dispute over his ufffd1 million (Rs 6.8 crore) estate, Iceland's Supreme Court ruled, amid claims he fathered a love child.
The 64-year-old left no will when he died in 2008, 35 years after he deposed the Soviet Boris Spassky in a match that came to symbolise Cold War rivalry.
But now the American-born chess grandmaster'su00a0 estate is at the centre of an extraordinary legal dispute amid claims he fathered a secret love child in the Philippines.
The court ruled that his body could be exhumed to prove whether he was the father of Jinky Young, 9.
It overturned a ruling from a lower court last month after new evidence emerged that the chess champion sent money to Jinky's mother, Marilyn Young (31) just before he died.
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The money from the estate is also being contested by his wife Miyoko Watai, two nephews and the US government, whom he owed unpaid taxes.
| About Fischer |
| A prodigy, Fischer was American chess champion at 14, was a grand master by 15. He was the first American in a century to be crowned world champion after beating Boris Spassky in neutral Iceland in 1972. He won the clash convincingly. But he was soon to forfeit the title. |
