Jim West On Chess: Paternity Test Results Questioned

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Paternity Test Results Questioned

After paternity test results showed that Bobby Fischer was not the biological father of Jinky Young, despite "strong secondary evidences" like the postcard shown above, the lawyer representing Jinky's mother Marilyn has criticized how the tissue samples were obtained.

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov