The one and only Chess No. 1 Magnus Carlsen

The CBS TV news magazine 60 Minutes focused on the exploits and personality of Magnus Carlsen. To get people in the mood they also streamed a "60 Minutes Rewind" of a report produced in 1972 on the upcoming match between Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby Fischer. You cannot miss it!

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Rare watercolour 'Noblewomen playing chess' dating 1780-1800 from India. Click photo to read further.

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Japanese wife is Fischer's legal heir

Miyoko Watai Ruled Fischer’s Legal Heir
Reykjavík District Court determined recently that Miyoko Watai, late chess grandmaster Robert J. Fischer’s wife, is his legal heir. Fischer’s nephews, Alexander Gary and Nicholas William Targ, had doubted that Watai and Fischer were legally married and claimed to be his closest relatives. Fischer’s nephews are to pay the widow over ISK 6.6 million (USD 57,000, EUR 41,000) in legal costs.

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