Miyoko Watei is Bobby Fischer's legal heir

3/4/2011 – The late chess champion has not been able to rest in peace. After his death in 2008 a Filipina live-in partner claimed that her young daughter had been fathered by the American, and then two nephews of Fischer challenged his marriage to Japanese Chess Association president Miyoko Watai. Now the Reykjavík District Court has determined: Miyoko was his wife and is his only legal heir. Press report.