Bobby Fischer Estate Update

Grandmaster Eugene Torre will accompany Jinky Young, the Filipino daughter of the late chess icon Bobby Fischer, to Iceland on Nov. 30 to follow-up on Young’s claim to the estate left by her father.

Torre and Young will be traveling with her mother Marilyn and lawyer Sammy Estimo in a bid to get her claim to Fisher’s estate consisting of 140 million Icelandic kronur (£ 1.07 million) and gold deposited at the Landsbanki Islands.

Fischer, a chess legend who died January 17 of last year, is married to Japanese Miyoko Watai, whom the Icelandic Supreme Court adjudged as Fischer’s lawful wife.

But Estimo countered that based on Icelandic law, the lawful wife can only get one third of the estate while the remaining two-thirds of the estate goes to the surviving child, in this case Jinky.

The group’s next stop after Iceland will be London where the filming on the life of whom many considered as the world’s greatest woodpusher is in full swing.

Fischer’s legend grew tremendously when he defeated Boris Spassky during the Cold War era. The face-off, considered by many as the Chess Match of the Century, was held in 1972 in Reykjavik.

Jinky was born when Fischer lived in Baguio City where he met Marilyn through Torre. – Perry Legaspi, GMANews.TV

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