Thursday, June 17, 2010

“Chess Match” or “Mate for Life” or “Spawn or Pawn?”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iceland_bobby_fischer

An Icelandic court is allowing the exhumation of the late, troubled chess genius Bobby Fischer to determine if he was the biological father of a 9-year-old. The results won’t be known for some time, but the little girl is already thinking six moves ahead.

Fischer left no will, so his estate is still in an ongoing dispute. At the moment, the participants are at a stale-mate.

If the little girl does turn out to be Fischer’s daughter, the court will have to turn his castle over.

DNA testing should provide definitive answers, but even that is not always as simple as black and white.

There definitely was a relationship between Fischer and the young girl’s mother, but she had a checkered past.

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