Lawyer: DNA tests prove chess icon Bobby Fischer not biological father of 9-year-old girl

Lawyer: Chess icon Fischer didn’t father girl

LONDON — A lawyer in Iceland says DNA tests show that chess master Bobby Fischer was not the father of a 9-year-old girl from the Philippines.

Fischer’s remains were exhumed in July so samples could be taken to determine if he had fathered Jinky Young, whose mother Marilyn said she had a relationship with the chess icon.

Jinky, who lives in the Philippines with her mother, flew to Iceland last year to provide her own sample.

The 64-year-old Fischer died in Iceland in January 2008. He left no will, and legal cases over who has the right to the U.S.-born player’s estate are ongoing.

Reykjavik-based lawyer Thordur Bogason, who represents Jinky, said Tuesday “the DNA report excluded Bobby Fisher from being the father of Jinky Young, and therefore the case has come to a close.”