Bobby Fischer Paternity Results Released: Jinky Is Not His Daughter

(Aug. 17) -- The results of Bobby Fischer's postmortem paternity test are in: Jinky Young, the 9-year-old daughter of Fischer's former lover, is not his offspring.

Worldwide chess champion Fischer, who died in 2008 at the age of 64, spent years as a nomad after all but forsaking his American heritage. During a stint in the Philippines, he allegedly entered into a sexual relationship with Marilyn Young, Jinky's mother.

Young offered up several documents, including postcards Fischer allegedly wrote to Jinky, as evidence to prove that he'd fathered the child.

Former chess champion Bobby Fischer speaks to reporters before his departure at New Tokyo International Airport in Narita, on March 24, 2005.

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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer, seen here in 2005, was not the father of a 9-year-old Filipino girl, a recent paternity test has shown.

Not quite, according to Icelandic authorities. After Fischer's body was exhumed under Supreme Court orders this year, experts conducted DNA tests to establish paternity.

Now, Iceland Review Online reports that results have come back negative.

Fischer was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005 and died in a Reykjavik hospital three years later.

He left behind an estate worth $2 million, with several parties -- including Young, Fischer's alleged ex-wife, U.S tax authorities and two nephews -- warring for a stake.

An establishment of paternity would have given Young a leg up on the competition.

"Mr. Fischer can't be the dad of this young lady," Arni Vilhjalmsson, the lawyer for Myoko Watai, a Japanese woman who claims she was once married to Fischer, told Agence France-Presse. "It means that she's out."