Miyoko Watai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese women's chess champion, and the general secretary of the Japan Chess Association
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Place of Birth: Saitama Prefecture, Kantō region, Japan
About Miyoko Watai
- Miyoko Watai (?? ???, Watai Miyoko, born January 8, 1945) is a Japanese chess player and official.
- She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in 1997.
- Watai is four-time Japanese women's champion.
- A pharmacist by profession, she is also the acting chairperson of the Japan Chess Association.
- She lives in the old Kamata ward, which is now part of Ota, Tokyo. In 1973 she met then world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and visited him several times for the next three decades.
- Starting in 2000 they reportedly lived together in a de facto marriage at her home.
- After Bobby Fischer's detention on July 13, 2004 for trying to travel with a revoked U.S.
- passport, she campaigned for his release.
- They were reportedly married in August 2004.
- According to an attorney representing a competing claim to Fischer's estate, the Supreme Court of Iceland ruled in December 2009 that Watai's claim of marriage to Fischer was invalidated because of her failure to present the original of their alleged marriage certificate.
- However, on March 3, 2011, a district court in Iceland ruled that Miyoko Watai, as Fischer's widow and heir, was entitled to inherit his estate.
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