FISCHER’S REMAINS WILL BE EXHUMED

IN a bizarre twist to the battle for the estate left by the late chess legend Bobby Fischer, lawyer Sammy Estimo revealed that the remains of the chess  icon  will be exhumed soon.

Estimo,  lawyer of  Fischer’s  Filipino  child,  Jinky Young,  said  that  Judge Sigrun Gudmundsdottir of the Icelandic probate court found no DNA samples of Fischer at the National Hospital in Iceland where the ex-world champion died on

January 17, 2008 of  renal failure. Because of this development, Estimo  and  his collaborating Icelandic lawyer,Thordur Bogason,were left with no other recourse but to request the court to issue an order for the exhumation of Bobby’s  remains

for DNA samples to be tested with the blood samples extracted from Jinky  when she went to Iceland in December last year.

Jinky, Fischer’s nephews and the Japanese Miyoko Watai, who claims to have married Fischer in 2004, are claimants to the P140 Million  and gold deposits left by  the chess genius at the Landsbanki in Reykjavik. Fischer also purchased  real estate properties  in Iceland where he  became  a  citizen  after  his release from a Japanese airport prison in 2005.

In  a decision issued  by the Supreme Court of Iceland in December  last year, Watai’s marriage to Fischer was invalidated because of the failure of the Japanese to present the original of their alleged marriage certificate.

On April 16, Judge Gudmundsdottir will resolve the request of Jinky  for the disinterment of her father’s  remains in a cemetery in Selfoss town, south Iceland.

Estimo had predicted before that this saga would reach this far —- for  Bobby Fischer to rise again and provide the solution to this puzzle on his estate.

BY: MARLON BERNARDINO