Miyoko Watai
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Template:Nihongo is a retired Japanese chess player and widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer.
Biography
She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in 1997.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Watai is a four-time Japanese women's champion. She lives in Kamata ward, which is now part of Ōta Ward, Tokyo.
In 1973, she met then world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and visited him several times for the next three decades. Starting in 2000 they reportedly lived together in a de facto marriage at her home.<ref name=KingsGambit>Template:Cite magazine</ref> After Bobby Fischer's detention on July 13, 2004, for trying to travel with a revoked U.S. passport, she campaigned for his release.
They were reportedly married in August 2004. According to an attorney representing a competing claim to Fischer's estate, the Supreme Court of Iceland ruled in December 2009 that Watai's claim of marriage to Fischer was invalidated because of her failure to present the original of their alleged marriage certificate.<ref name =ChessbaseTBE>"Fischer’s remains to be exhumed?" Template:Webarchive. ChessBase. 1 April 2010.</ref> However, on March 3, 2011, a district court in Iceland ruled that Miyoko Watai, as Fischer's widow and heir, was entitled to inherit his estate. It also ruled that Watai and Fischer had legally married on September 6, 2004.<ref name=ny>Template:Cite news</ref>
References
External links
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- Miyoko Watai chess games at 365Chess.com
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