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| | ChessBase.com - Chess News - 'We want to live together forever' |
 | | Watai: He has a lot of chess player friends in the Philippines. | | | Watai: [Nods reluctantly] He doesn't like taking any medicine at all and he doesn't go to the doctor. | | | That clock would be used for matches of other games like "go" and "shogi" Japanese chess games. |
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| | Chessmetrics Ratings: Watai, Miyoko |
| | These ratings, calculated for Watai, Miyoko, incorporate all games (against rated opponents) played in the year before the "Date of rating", along with the ratings that were already calculated one year previously. | | | If a player has an insufficient number of games in recent years, there may be gaps in the list, even though you may see ratings listed on previous and/or subsequent dates. | | | Click on the link to see the sorted list of all players' ratings on their birthdays when turning that same age. |
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| | The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: Catch 64 |
| | Watai, four times the women's chess champion in Japan. | | | The latest Fischer fun is that he might not be able to marry the Japanese woman he hopes will save him from deportation unless he has a valid passport, which he doesn't, which is why he was detained in the first place! | | | I think Mig hit on the most important element of this whole fiasco -- the invidious spread of awful chess analogies. |
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| | The New York Times > International > Asia Pacific > Chess Is Her Passion and, She Declares, So Is Bobby-San |
| | OKYO, Aug. 19 - Miyoko Watai, the freshly minted fiancée of Bobby Fischer, the imprisoned American chess master, admitted Thursday that he might be using her as "a pawn" in an effort to counter the Japanese authorities' opening move. | | | Watai, four times women's chess champion in Japan. | | | Watai, 59, the acting president of the Japan Chess Association. |
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| | TIME Asia Magazine: King's Gambit -- Aug. 30, 2004 |
| | While legal experts say marrying Watai might substantially improve Japan's willingness to let Fischer stay in the country, Fischer's application is now caught in a catch-22: one of the documents he needs to submit to get married in Japan is a valid passport. | | | To the average lonely heart, Bobby Fischer—erstwhile chess champion, virulent anti-Semite, and fugitive from the U.S. justice system—might not sound like Mr. | | | Miyoko Watai admits she has no idea how this will all play out, and last week she described herself as just a "pawn" in the process. |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Chessmaster Fischer is detained in Japan |
| | Watai said Fischer doesn't want to go back to America. | | | Going along unimpeded, he bragged to a radio interviewer in 2002 that the ''US hasn't got the guts to catch me." | | | The chess master has been reclusive but hardly impossible to find in recent years. |
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| | Fischer versus Women |
| | We have three reports of women playing chess against Fischer: Miyoko Watai, Cathy Forbes and Susan Polgar. | | | There is another, very intriguing relation in Fischer's life. | | | Miyoko Watai, president and secretary general of the Japan Chess Association and a friend of Fischer's since 1973. |
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| | IBLNEWS : El ex campeón de ajedrez Fischer lucha contra la deportación |
| | "Prestó mucha atención a su pasaporte y aún le quedaban tres años", dijo Watai a Reuters. | | | "Le han cubierto la cabeza con un saco y lo han maltratado", afirmó Watai, que además declaró que Fischer había peleado contra sus guardianes. | | | "Se ha quejado argumentando que él no había hecho nada malo", declaró Watai. |
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| | Miyoko Watai - definition of Miyoko Watai in Encyclopedia |
| | Miyoko Watai, Fischer's betrothed and a Japanese women's chess champion herself. | | | Miyoko Watai - definition of Miyoko Watai in Encyclopedia | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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| | Encyclopedia: Miyoko Watai |
| | Miyoko Watai, is Bobby Fischer's betrothed and a Japanese women's chess champion herself. | | | Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com). | | | Updated 205 days 23 hours 59 minutes ago. |
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| | Myoko Watai in the role of "a happy fiancee" -- Flambers Drugstore |
| | > >Miyoko Watai is president of the Japanese chess >federation, a >verschworenen circle of approximately 600 members in a >nation, where 20 >million prefer the domestic superior strategy play >Shogi. | | | Miyoko Watai is president of the Japanese chess federation, a | | | Miyoko >Watai fights since >13 July, when the former chess world champion on of >Tokyo was arrested >airport Narita, against the distribution of its Idols >to the United >States. |
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| | Ex-chess champ's fiancee wants to be his 'queen' The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | TOKYO – In a high-stakes chess game with Japanese immigration authorities, Miyoko Watai, the freshly minted fiancee of Bobby Fischer, acknowledged yesterday that the imprisoned American chess master might be using her as a "pawn." | | | "But in chess, there is such a thing as pawn promotion, where a pawn can become a queen," said Watai, four times the women's chess champion in Japan. | | | Breaking into a smile, the soft-spoken chess strategist vowed: "Bobby-san is my king, and I will become his queen. |
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| | ChessBase.com - Chess News - Fischer renounces US citizenship |
| | He plays only Fischerandom, which he calls ‘new chess,’” Watai says. | | | Fischer is currently focussing on a new style of chess he developed, called "Fischerandom Chess" (in which the back row of each player’s pieces are scrambled before the game starts). | | | Is that a real life?’” And why did Fischer move to Japan? |
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| | ROBERT JAMES FISCHER by Bill Wall (Sep 20, 2004) |
| | Later that year, Fischer travelled to Japan and was living with Miyoko Watai, President of the Japanese Chess Association and former Japanese women's chess champion. | | | He also announced plans to marry Miyoko Watai, the Japan Chess Association President. | | | In September, 2004, a Japanese court granted an injunction preventing Fischer from beind deported until it had ruled on his lawsuit seeking to have the deportation order thrown out. |
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| | Ex-chess champion Fischer wants to marry Japanese citizen - World News - MSNBC.com |
| | Fischer became an American icon when, at the height of the Cold War, he defeated Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a series of games in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1972. | | | It was unclear whether Japanese officials would accept the marriage application. | | | A separate statement from Suzuki also said Fischer and Japan Chess Association President Miyoko Watai had signed marriage papers that would be submitted later on Monday. |
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| | CBS News Reprieve For Bobby Fischer September 8, 2004 05:47:05 |
| | Fischer rose to chess stardom by defeating Boris Spassky, formerly of the Soviet Union, in a series of games in 1972 to claim the world championship. | | | Since his detention, he has also announced his engagement to longtime companion Miyoko Watai, acting head of the Japan Chess Association. | | | A spokesman for Bobby Fischer says local officials in Japan have tentatively approved his plans to marry Miyoko Watai, acting head of the Japan Chess Association. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Sport Breaking news Endgame for king of chess, after 12 years on the run |
| | "We are frantically looking for somewhere, but it is going to be very difficult," said Miyoko Watai, acting president of the Japan Chess Association. | | | Ms Watai, a friend of Fischer's since 1973, said the former champion had no idea his passport had been rescinded until he was detained. | | | But the US is likely to put pressure on the Filipino government to withhold asylum. |
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| | Bobby Fischer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There has been speculation that the move occurred in order to aid Fischer's chances of being allowed to stay in Japan. | | | The following month, it was reported that Fischer would be marrying Miyoko Watai, the President of the Japanese Chess Association, with whom he has been living since 2000. | | | Bobby Fischer renounced his U.S. citizenship, according to the AFP. |
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| | Watai admits Fischer marriage plans aimed at getting visa |
| | Miyoko Watai, Japanese chess champion and fiancee of Bobby Fischer, has admitted in an interview with a chess website that she was prompted to marry the incarcerated grandmaster to prevent him from being expelled from the country. | | | I cut out every article about him from magazines and English newspapers, and I studied records of his games," she said. | | | Watai said she became smitten with Fischer after he defeated Boris Spassky, then of the Soviet Union, to become world champion in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1972. |
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| | ABC News: Bobby Fischer Freed From Japan |
| | Fischer was accompanied by his fiancee, Miyoko Watai, the head of Japan's chess association, and an official from the Icelandic Embassy. | | | Fischer, who has been held in detention since his arrest, claims the passport was revoked illegally and sued to block a deportation order to the United States, where he is wanted for violating sanctions imposed on the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match against Russian Boris Spassky in 1992. | | | Accompanied by his fiancee Miyoko Watai, he was scheduled to leave for Denmark en route to Iceland. |
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| | Actuarial Outpost - Chess: Fischer Detained in Japan, faces extradition to US |
| | Miyoko Watai, a Japan Chess Association official who described herself as a longtime friend of Fischer's, said the eccentric chess prodigy discovered when he was detained that the United States had revoked his passport. | | | Fischer was stopped at Tokyo's Narita International Airport on Tuesday as he tried to go to the Philippines, an airport official said on condition of anonymity. | | | Watai, who said she had spoken with Fischer since his |
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Fischer 'must be deported to US' |
| | While in detention, he has become engaged to the head of the Japan Chess Association, Miyoko Watai, but the authorities are still studying their marriage application. | | | Mr Fischer became a chess grandmaster at 15, and shot to fame in 1972 when he beat Boris Spassky of the then Soviet Union. |
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| | Jerusalem Post Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World |
| | Fischer had long been rumoured to be living in Japan, aided and sheltered by chess devotees, and is believed to have frequented a Tokyo chess club. | | | "He didn't know that his passport had been revoked," said Watai, a member of the Japan Chess Association. | | | "He came here often for short stays," said Watai. |
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| | Sun.Star Cebu - Pestaño: Bobby Fischer updates |
| | Bosnitch has also informed the Japanese Government that Fischer and Watai have completed and signed the Japanese legal documents for marriage. | | | His supporters in Japan include John Bosnitch, a former US junior chess champion, long-time friend Miyoko Watai, who is a four-time Women Japanese champion, lawyer Masako Suzuki and Ichiji Ishii, a former minister of foreign affairs and founder of a chess club. | | | Their strategy is for Fischer to renounce his US citizenship, acquire German citizenship and/or marry Watai, who claims she and Fischer have been living together for several years now. |
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| | After visiting Fischer in custody at Tokyo's Narita Airport, Miyoko Watai, of the Japan Chess Association, said Wednesday Fischer was appealing the deportation. | | | Watai, a longtime friend of Fischer's, said he was also hoping to find political asylum in a third country. | | | He lost his title as world champion in 1978 and then largely vanished from the public eye. |
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| | Fracas over boiled egg lands Bobby Fischer in solitary - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com |
| | Fischer’s fiancee, Miyoko Watai, a four-time Japan women’s chess champion who last year announced plans to marry Fischer, said he told her during a meeting on Monday morning that he had been in solitary confinement from last Wednesday to Sunday morning at the detention center in Ushiku, northeast of Tokyo. | | | Watai said Fischer became involved in a dispute with guards when he asked for an additional boiled egg at breakfast. | | | Watai and other Fischer supporters, including a longtime friend who came to Japan last week in hopes of taking Fischer back to Iceland, said last week that they and Fischer’s lawyers had been prevented from meeting with him since Wednesday. |
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| | USATODAY.com - With Iceland's intervention, Fischer may be free in days |
| | Fischer, 62, has been in Japanese custody since his arrest at the Tokyo airport in July. | | | He has demanded political refugee status in Japan and said he intends to marry Watai, who heads Japan's chess federation. | | | Miyoko Watai, his longtime companion, said Fischer was "very happy" after hearing the news. |
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| | Chess legend 'seeking asylum' |
| | Miyoko Watai, head of the Japan Chess Association and a personal friend of Fischer's, said on a website she set up in tribute: "He urgently requests an immediate offer of political asylum from a friendly third country." | | | He was arrested in Japan earlier this month and has been held while authorities decide whether or not to extradite him to the United States. | | | The statement said Fischer did not want to return to the United States, which she described as "Jew-controlled" saying he would face "a kangaroo court and 10 years in Federal prison and a probably early demise or worse on trumped-up political charges". |
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| | ChessBase.com - Chess News - Will Fischer be extradited? |
| | Miyoko has provided us with the following contact for people who may wish to contact Japanese authorities in this matter: | | | From his jail cell at Narita Fischer, who has at the present time no legal council and cannot be contacted by phone, told us through the head of the Japan Chess Association, Miyoko Watai, that he had not received the December 11th notice about his passort. | | | Miyoko Watai has drawn our attention to the fact that both Boris Spassky and Lothar Schmid, who took part in the 1992 match in Yugoslavia, have faced no trouble in their countries of residence, France and Germany respectively. |
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| | Fischer Update Free discussion |
| | fiancee Miyoko Watai had been turned away because they were accompanied | | | > fiancee Miyoko Watai had been turned away because they were accompanied |
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| | Japan Chess Association acting head Miyoko Watai speaks to reporters after a news conference in Tokyo in this picture taken July 29, 2004. | | | In the latest twist to the bizzare tale of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted by Washington for defying sanctions and now in detention in Japan, the chessmaster has decided to tie the knot with Watai, his lawyer said on August 16. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Fischer to wed chess official |
| | Fischer's lawyer, Masako Suzuki, said the former world champion and Japan Chess Association President Miyoko Watai had signed marriage papers. | | | It was not immediately clear how marriage to a Japanese citizen would affect the efforts to extradite Fischer. | | | The two had been living together since 2000 and decided to formalize their relationship, Suzuki said in a statement. |
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| | Oh! You Pretty Things! David Bowie MB |
| | Bosnitch also said local authorities in Tokyo had provisionally accepted Fischer's application to marry his long-time Japanese companion Miyoko Watai. | | | Fischer has completed a written appeal of that decision be filed with US Secretary of State Colin Powell and the US embassy in Tokyo, Bosnitch said, adding a US appeal hearing must be held within 60 days. | | | Authorities had earlier refused his application due to the lack of necessary documentation, including Fischer's passport. |
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| | A Japanese chess great who plans to marry former world champion Bobby Fischer and help him avoid deportation home to the US declared herself yesterday to be a pawn seeking to become a queen. | | | Miyoko Watai appealed for help to wed her king after their plans to marry appeared checkmated by a bureaucratic glitch. |
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| | Miyoko Watai |
| | The article about Miyoko Watai contains information related to Miyoko Watai and Reference. | | | This page was last modified 12:18, 3 Apr 2005. |
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| | Re: Myoko Watai in the role of "a happy fiancee" -- Flambers Drugstore |
| | >This part from the interview with Miyoko Watai is very | | | MercyCorps is a highly rated and respected humanitarian organization, chosen by Voyager Info-Systems for their low cost overhead and ability to contribute directly to the cause of your choice. | | | I think they did not want to give Fischer a German passport and refered to recent publications. |
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| | It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer) | | | Miyoko Watai is mentioned in the following topics: |
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Fischer plans to marry in Japan |
| | Ms Watai, a long-term friend of Mr Fischer, said she had first met him in 1973 and the couple had been living together for the past four years. | | | Mr Fischer has already said he wants to renounce his US citizenship, and has applied for political asylum in Japan. | | | The marriage plans were announced late on Monday by Mr Fischer's lawyer, Masako Suzuki, and later confirmed in a statement from the bride-to-be, Miyoko Watai. |
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| | 'Battling for Bobby Fischer' ('Mainichi Daily News') |
| | He lived in Japan with his fiance Miyoko Watai, 60, from 2000 | | | before Palsson and Watai could find out what had happened to Fischer on | | | Fischer is a household name in the West, but in Japan he is virtually |
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| | BCM: International Chess News Archive |
| | Bobby Fischer to marry Miyoko Watai, acting head of the Japan Chess Association, according to a Reuters report... | | | Boris Spassky has written to President Bush, asking if he can share a cell with Bobby Fischer... |
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| | Earlier in Tokyo, Fischer's lawyer, Masako Suzuki, said her client had decided to marry the head of the Japan Chess Association, Miyoko Watai, and was seeking assistance in renouncing his US citizenship. | | | US officials have told Fischer to come to the embassy because all Tokyo-based US officials are too busy to visit him in detention at an immigration facility in Ushiku, 60 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Tokyo, she said in the letter. | | | He declined to comment further on the matter or confirm that Fischer had appealed to US Secretary of State Colin Powell or the US embassy in Tokyo for help in renouncing his citizenship, as Fischer's lawyer has said. |
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| | Remain Calm |
| | The quote, from this newspaper peice that fooled me is as follows: "Miyoko Watai, his long-time companion, said he was "very happy" after hearing the news." I had mixed my antecedents, and been fooled by the use of the term long-time companion. | | | Still waiting for any hard evidence on Iran and a nuclear weapons program. | | | On advice of extralegal counsel, Robert Lindsay, I've been informed that Miyoko Watai is not a man, but a woman, thus removing from my mind the idea that Fischer is gay. |
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| | Miyoko Watai |
| | Asian Political News - FOCUS: U.S. chess icon Fischer's case puts Japan bureaucracy under scrutiny | | | Miyoko Watai related books, DVDs, Music at Amazon | | | Miyoko Watai related discount products at Discount Hunter |
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| | Pejmanesque: Chess Archives |
| | Fischer was defiant when he arrived with his fiancee, Miyoko Watai, at the Tokyo airport after being released Thursday morning. | | | Asked what it will be like to be free, he replied: "Great, great." |
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