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Miyoko Watai Is Girlfriend of Bobby Fischer

Miyoko Watai photo

Miyoko Watai picture (credit: Chessbase.com)

Miyoko Watai is the girlfriend of former US chess genius Bobby Fischer

who died yesterday. The general secretary of the Japan Chess

Association lived together in a de facto marriage at her Japanese home

until August 2004 when Fischer was intercepted at Tokoyo Narita

Airport by the Japanese Government for travelling with a revoked U.S.

passport. Watai campaigned for his freedom and later successfully

liaison Iceland to grant Bobby a passport. Since 2005, the couple

lives at Reykjavik. Chessbase.com has a fabulous interview

(accompanied with plenty of photos) with Watai, below is the

introduction part of the article:

Miyoko Watai, acting president and general secretary of the Japan

Chess Association, visits a detention facility in Ushiku, Ibaraki

Prefecture, a 50 km northeast from central Tokyo, everyday except

weekends and holidays, taking two hours of train and taxi rides for

a one-way trip. Sitting on a chair in a small room there, she meets

- through a glass wall - the chess legend and her fiancee, Bobby

Fischer.

Since 59-year-old Watai first met Fischer in Tokyo in 1973, she had

corresponded with the former world chess champion for years and

visited his homes in the U.S. and Hungary. In January 2000,

Fischer, wanted in the United States for violating international

sanctions on the former Yugoslavia in 1992, eventually began living

in Watai's home in Kamata downtown in Tokyo's Ota Ward. It was the

start of their de facto marriage. Now the couple wants to legally

tie the knot.

Their peaceful life in Japan, however, was suddenly interrupted on

July 13, when Fischer was arrested at the Narita International

Airport for allegedly trying to travel with an invalid U.S.

passport. The chess grandmaster has been detained in the Ushiku

detention center after he was moved from a similar facility at the

airport on Aug. 10.

The situation is getting worse for Fischer and Watai. In the

evening on Aug. 24, the Japanese government, which has an

extradition treaty with the U.S., issued an order to deport him

later that night. The surprise move shocked the couple and his

supporters. But his lawyers quickly filed a lawsuit the same day at

the Tokyo District Court to demand that the injunction be canceled,

which is expected to delay deportation proceedings for a month,

according to Watai.

Watai is in anger and in worry that the arrest has given the chess

genius a mental anguish and messed up the couple's quiet life in

Japan. "He is like a prisoner on a death row. He is afraid of being

deported to the U.S., which could happen today or tomorrow. Why

does he have to endure such misery?" is how she put it.

Right after the incident happened, Watai started desperately trying

to free Fischer, seeking support from chess fans around the world.

The Committee to Free Bobby Fischer was set up in late July by

Watai and other Fischer' admirers, including Ichiji Ishii, a former

vice minister of foreign affairs, and Canadian communication

consultant John Bosnitch. The group has aggressively taken legal

action to prevent the Japanese government from deporting Fischer to

the U.S.

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