Iceland exhumed Bobby Fischer to test a girl's paternity claim, and the DNA said no

Bobby Fischer became world chess champion by beating Boris Spassky in Reykjavík in 1972. Wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 match in Yugoslavia, he was given Icelandic citizenship in 2005^†. He died of kidney failure in 2008 without a will and was buried at Laugardælir church near Selfoss. His estate was estimated at about $2 million. Four parties claimed it: Miyoko Watai, a Japanese chess official who said she married him in 2004; his American nephews Alexander and Nicholas Targ; the US government, for unpaid taxes; and Marilyn Young of the Philippines, for her daughter Jinky, aged 8 or 9. A Reykjavík court found no Fischer DNA held at the national hospital. Jinky's lawyers asked for exhumation. The district court refused. In June 2010 Iceland's Supreme Court reversed it after evidence that Fischer had sent money to Marilyn Young in 2006 and 2007, ruling that "it is unavoidable to exhume his body." The body was exhumed in July 2010^†. In August 2010 the DNA test excluded Fischer as Jinky's father. In March 2011 a Reykjavík court ruled that Watai had legally married Fischer on 6 September 2004 and was his heir, and ordered the nephews to pay her costs. Watai received what remained after the government's claims were settled^†.