Chess master Fischer’s body exhumed

The Spokesman-Review ^ | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 | Gudjon Helgason

[Willie Green]

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Authorities in Iceland have exhumed the body of American chess champion Bobby Fischer to determine whether he is the father of a 9-year-old girl from the Philippines.

Police district commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson said Fischer’s corpse was dug up from a cemetery near Selfoss in southern Iceland early Monday in the presence of a doctor, a priest and other officials.

Kjartansson said Fischer was reburied after DNA samples were taken.

Fischer died in Iceland in January 2008 aged 64. He left no will, and legal wrangling continues over his estate.

Last month Iceland’s supreme court ruled Fischer should be exhumed so DNA testing could determine whether he was the father of Jinky Young, whose mother Marilyn says she had a relationship with Fischer.

[Sacajaweau]

Hey Tiger......pay attention!!!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Now all we have to do is to put his body on the front of a high speed train where pitbulls are taught the Sicilian opening, Schevenigen variation?

[Our man in washington]

So her probable mate is dead. Fortunately, they can still check mate.

[Our man in washington]

So her probable mate is dead. Fortunately, they can still check mate.

[gigster]

Re: ...high speed train...

You almost made me spit out my beverage when I read that.

[Busywhiskers]

Very punny.

[Joe 6-pack]

"So her probable mate is dead. Fortunately, they can still check mate."

What a horrible pawn.

[No Truce With Kings]

While he is out of the ground maybe he can play a game of chess with Death.

[Jonah Hex]

(considers a pun about a fool's mate, but reconsiders that move)

[DollyCali]

well, did you see the movie Jonah Hex yet? I liked it but was NOT familiar with the comic books. (like never saw or heard of them). I am a Brslin & Malkovich fan anyway

[GreenHornet]

Wow! There is NOWHERE to hide when you owe child support!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Hey...spit happens!

[Jonah Hex]

Unh...not recommended by me. The producers blew a good chance to make a classic DC Comics Western horror film (imagine The Man with No Name vs. sideshow zombies) in favor of an action film with heavy metal background music, Megan Fox, two gatlings mounted on a horse, and a train wreck. :-(

Blech... if the producers had done the research (yeah, right), they'd been better off optioning Joe R. Lansdale's Two Gun Mojo as a script. Now THAT would have been a Jonah Hex movie!

[jonno]

chuckles!

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

Jinky?

[BenKenobi]

post of the day.