page_title: Miyoko Watai
hierarchical_section_title: Miyoko Watai
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Miyoko Watai bei der Schacholympiade 1980 in Valletta auf Malta. Watai spielte am zweiten Brett des Kampfes Frankreich-Japan.
context_page_description: Miyoko Watai is an inactive/retired Japanese chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in 1997. Watai is four-time Japanese women's champion. She lives in Kamata ward, which is now part of Ōta, 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.
context_section_description: Miyoko Watai (渡井 美代子, Watai Miyoko, born January 8, 1945) is an inactive/retired Japanese chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in 1997. Watai is four-time Japanese women's champion. She lives in Kamata ward, which is now part of Ōta, 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.
caption: Chess Olympiad 1980
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