Bobby Fischer’s body will be exhumed from its resting place to carry out a paternity DNA test todetermine with certainty whether the child who has come forward with her mother claiming Fischer to be the biological dad really has a legitimate right to Fischer’s estate. The exhumation is necessary to be able to get a DNA sample from the alleged father.
Bobby Fischer is one of the greatest chess players of all times, born in Chicago and died in Iceland. The man’s life was strange- he disappeared from the chess seen not playing for almost two decades, caused legal problems in Japan and the US and was not able to return to either country- he sought asylum in Iceland . The child in question who claims to be Fischer’s daughter is the 9 year-old Philippine girl, Jinky Young, who is represented by Thordur Bogason.
Bobby Fischer- Paternity Test from the Grave
Should the paternity test establish that the girl is the chess champion’s daughter, under Icelandic law, she will be declared his legal heir and thus be entitled to his estate.
The court case is not a clear cut paternity test; Fischer’s long term partner and family in the US are also involved in the case. Bobby Fischer died in 2008, intestate, and the size of his estate has not yet been established with certainty. Bogason has shown the court the on a number of occasions during the last year of his life, Fischer had sent considerable amounts of money to Young and her mother, Marilyn. Moreover, there had been regular visits between Fischer, Young and her mother and that Marilyn and daughter had flown to Iceland on occasions to visit Fischer. Fischer’s long term partner states she has never heard any mention of a daughter.
Marilyn and her daughter have sent in blood samples as a tissue from which DNA can be extracted. Like with any paternity DNA test, scientists will extract a DNA profile from these samples as well as from the sample of the alleged father and trace the degree of similarity between the DNA patterns.
Marilyn’s sample is not an absolute necessity for the paternity test but as the mother it is always strongly recommend to send in her sample to increase the strength of the result. Having the mother’s sample will help DNA analysts exclude her share of biological inheritance thereby leaving a clear DNA profile of the genes inherited solely from the father.
Bobby Fischer is just one of many big names who have made the headlines because of a paternity dispute. The difference, which makes this case somewhat unusual, is that the testing is going to be done post-humus. DNA paternity testing is accurate and the only reliable, scientific means of ascertaining paternity.
