Bobby Fischer's Widow Will Inherit 140 Million Kronur

Translated from Icelandic:


Miyoko Watai, Bobby Fischer´s widow, will inherit the 140 million Icelandic Kronur that Fischer left behind when he died. It has been confirmed that Watai was Fischer’s wife, but not his girlfriend, as has been argued so many times. She will inherit all of the 140 million Icelandic kronur according to the resources of Vísir that he left behind, as well as the 67 square meter apartment in Espigerði.

As was said in the noon news of Stöðvar 2, the ex brother in-law of Fischer and father to his two nephews, Russel Targ, is here to look out for the interests of his sons. According to him on the website of Morgunblaðið, it is his intention to see if Fischer has a legal wife, or children. If that is the case then he has nothing to do here. But if it is not so then Targ will make demands on Fischer´s holding in the name of his sons, since they are the next to kin relatives.

The assets that Fischer leaves behind is part of the prize money that he got for the notorious chess that he played with Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan and Belgrad in 1992 and was the reason that he was wanted by the United States government.

The money was held for a long time in a Swiss bank account according to resources of Vísir but the bank revoked his business with Fischer shortly after he moved to Iceland, and they put this money into account in his name in Landsbankinn.

The apartment in Espigerði, which Fischer bought in 2004, is on the ninth floor. It is the top floor of the apartment building, and his close friend Garðar Sverrisson lives on the seventh floor.

It has long been argued that Fischer was a father to a girl in the Philippines but Vísir has no information that he was in contact with her mother since the child was born. Therefore all of Fischer´s assets will go Fischer´s wife, Miyoko Watai. They were close friends for a long time and got married when the argument of the extradition of Fischer from Japan to the United States was at its high point.

Original story in Icelandic:

Miyoko Watai, ekkja Bobby Fischer, mun erfa þær 140 milljónir sem Fischer skildi eftir sig við andlát sitt. Staðfest hefur verið að Watai var eiginkona Fischers en ekki unnusta eins og oft hefur verið haldið fram og mun því erfa þær rúmu 140 milljónir króna sem Vísir hefur heimildir fyrir að hann láti eftir sig, auk 67 fermetra íbúðar í Espigerði.

Eins og kom fram í hádegisfréttum Stöðvar 2 er fyrrverandi mágur Fischer og faðir tveggja systrasona hans, Russel Targ, hér á landi til þess að gæta hagsmuna sona sinna. Haft er eftir honum á vef Morgunblaðsins að hann vilji ganga úr skugga um hvort Fischer hafi skilið eftir sig eiginkonu eða börn. Sé það raunin eigi hann ekkert erindi hér. Sé það hins vegar ekki raunin mun Targ væntanlega gera kröfu í eigur Fischer í nafni sona sinna enda þeir hans nánustu eftirlifandi ættingjar.

Fjármunirnir sem Fischer lætur eftir sig er hluti af verðlaunafé sem hann fékk fyrir hið umdeilda skákeingvígi sem hann háði við Boris Spassky í Sveti Stefan og Belgrad árið 1992 og olli því að hann lenti upp á kant við bandarísk stjórnvöld.

Því var lengi haldið föstu inn á svissneskum bankareikningum en samkvæmt heimildum Vísis rifti bankinn viðskiptum sínum við Fischer skömmu eftir að hann settist að hér á landi og lagði peningana inn á reikning í hans nafni í Landsbankanum.

Íbúðina í Espigerði keypti Fischer árið 2004. Hún er á níundu og efstu hæð í fjölbýli en náinn vinur hans, Garðar Sverrisson, býr á sjöundu hæðinni.

Því hefur lengi verið haldið fram að Fischer hafi feðrað stúlku á Filippseyjum en Vísir hefur ekki upplýsingar um að hann hafi verið í samskiptum við móður hennar síðan. Þar afleiðandi munu eigur Fischer renna óskipt til eiginkonu sinnar Miyoko Watai. Þau voru lengi nánir vinir og giftu sig þegar deilan um framsal hans frá Japan til Bandaríkjanna stóð sem hæst.