Bobby Fischer to be exhumed over paternity dispute

THE remains of former chess champion Bobby Fischer, who died two years ago in Iceland, will be dug up to settle a paternity claim, Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled.

The court said tissue samples were needed to determine the paternity of Jinky Young, the Filipina daughter of Fischer’s former lover. It overturned a ruling by a lower court earlier this year denying the request.

“In order to obtain such a sample it is unavoidable to exhume his body,” a court document published this week said, without specifying when the remains would be dug up.