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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.
		Watai said she was uncertain whether they would have married had Fischer not been arrested at Narita Airport on July 13 for traveling with a passport the U.S. said was invalid.
		Watai, who shares a desire for privacy rivaling her reclusive lover, spoke in some detail about her life with Fischer, who is languishing in the East Japan Immigration Bureau Detention Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, as he fights a deportation order.
	www.bobby-fischer.net /watai_admits_fischer_marriage_aimed_at_getting_visa.htm (598 words)

	Japan treatment angers Fischer companion - Boston.com
		Watai got swept up in the Fischer saga after he was detained -- "kidnapped" is the word she and Fischer use -- by Japanese authorities at Tokyo's Narita airport in July 2004.
		Watai said Fischer stopped playing chess long ago, giving it up for a version of his own known as Fischer Random, or chess 960.
		Watai, herself an established expert in the game, said she agrees with Fischer that the chess world is in need of a shake-up.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/11/30/japan_treatment_angers_fischer_companion?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News (681 words)

	Friends blocked from seeing Bobby Fischer behind bars - MSN-Mainichi Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Watai, who has gone to see Fischer in Ushiku almost daily since he was put in detention without ever having a visit canceled abruptly, was baffled.
		Watai said she had talked with Fischer over the phone on Tuesday night and told him that Palsson would be visiting the following day.
		As soon as Watai and Palsson arrived at the center, Kobayashi appeared at the door and told media representatives that they would not be able to cover the story from inside the building.
	mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp /features/archive/news/2005/06/20050629p2g00m0fe051000c.html (936 words)

	ESPN.com - Watai: 'He's still on their list. He can't go back'
		Watai got swept up in the Fischer saga after he was detained -- "kidnapped" is the word she and Fischer use -- by Japanese authorities at Tokyo's Narita airport in July 2004.
		Watai said Fischer stopped playing chess long ago, giving it up for a version of his own known as Fischer Random, or chess 960.
		Watai, herself an established expert in the game, said she agrees with Fischer that the chess world is in need of a shake up.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=2681187&type=story (657 words)

	Fischer stressed by long detention
		Miyoko Watai, a Japanese chess great who announced her plans to wed Fischer this year, said the brilliant but eccentric former champion is finding it increasingly hard to cope with life in the immigration centre where he is held.
		Watai, 59, and a four-time women's chess champion in Japan, said the strain of her frequent visits to Fischer at the detention centre north of Tokyo, a trip of several hours for a meeting of about 30 minutes, was growing,
		Watai said she has no regrets about her engagement to Fischer and added that the former champion was not shy about expressing his feelings.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/nov/02fis.htm (584 words)

	Bobby Fischer Page
		Watai got swept up in the Fischer saga after he was detained — "kidnapped" is the word she and Fischer use — by Japanese authorities at Tokyo's Narita airport in July 2004.
		Watai, who is 61, said Fischer stopped playing chess long ago, giving it up for a version of his own known as Fischer Random, or chess 960.
		Watai, herself an established expert in the game, said she agrees with Fischer that the chess world is in need of a shakeup.
	zeechess.8m.com /index_1.html (1325 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - 'We want to live together forever'
		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.
		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.
		Miyoko Watai, Bobby Fischer's fiancee and acting president of the Japan Chess Association, takes us on a tour of the Kamata downtown in Tokyo's Ota Ward, where she has lived with Fischer for more than four years.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1879 (2246 words)

	Japan Treatment Angers Fischer Companion
		Beyond that, there are many things the world may never know about the reclusive chess icon _ and Miyoko Watai, Fischer's longtime companion, says she isn't going to break the silence.
		Watai got swept up in the Fischer saga after he was detained _ "kidnapped" is the word she and Fischer use _ by Japanese authorities at Tokyo's Narita airport in July 2004.
		Even so, she is hoping to lead the Japanese team _ two high school boys and a 65-year-old grandmother _ to a top-10 finish at the Asian Games, where the traditional style of chess is being included as a medal-producing sport for the first time.
	www.620ktar.com /?nid=46&sid=272722 (659 words)

	Miyoko Watai - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Miyoko Watai - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		Miyoko Watai, References, Chess players and Living people.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Miyoko_Watai (163 words)

	dustbury.com: From a lengthy brief
		[Miyoko] Watai [Fischer's fiancée] had finished soaking in the therapeutic waters and was waiting in the lobby for him to come out of the men's section of the spring they had visited.
		While there, Watai overhead a conversation "between two Japanese geezers," as Fischer referred to them, who had been marveling over the enormity of the male organ they spotted on a fellow bather.
		When Fischer walked out of the hot spring's change room, the two men apparently pointed at the chess genius, said simultaneously, "Hey, that's him," to indicate who they had been talking about, and caused much embarrassment for his lover.
	www.dustbury.com /archives/003281.html (245 words)

	Myoko Watai in the role of "a happy fiancee" -- Flambers Drugstore
		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.
		Miyoko Watai by the way >won a new >important allied one: the former deputy minister of >foreign affairs >Ichiji Ishii.
	www.voy.com /122776/1700.html (2615 words)

	Checkmate -- has chess king Bobby Fischer met his match?
		Watai, who said she had known Fischer since 1973, said he had phoned her after being taken into custody, and "the problem is he doesn't trust the lawyers."
		Fischer has kept up the drumbeat ever since, and Watai believes it is his verbal attacks that have stirred up U.S. authorities.
		According to Watai, Fischer was issued a new passport in 1997 by the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland -- four years after the warrant for his arrest was signed.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/07/17/MNG3J7NCIC1.DTL&type=printable (588 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: King's Gambit -- Aug. 30, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Watai's talk of marriage plans has aroused suspicions that it might merely be a ploy to prevent Fischer from being deported.
		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.
		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.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501040830-686101,00.html (1262 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Pestaño: Bobby Fischer’s love life
		When Bobby was arrested in Japan, one of his strategies was to claim that he was married to a Japanese, Miyoko Watai, to escape extradition to the USA over unspecified charges.
		Miyoko Watai admitted “that he might be using her as "a pawn" in an effort to counter the Japanese authorities' opening move.”
		Watai, 59, the acting president of the Japan Chess Association.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2007/01/19/sports/pesta.o.bobby.fischer.s.love.life.html (685 words)

	News Archives
		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.
		She said he was ``a pathetic sight'' in custody, but refused to disclose what else they discussed during their 30-minute meeting.
	www.usaforunhcr.org /usaforunhcr/archives.cfm?ID=1943&cat=Archives (315 words)

	The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: Catch 64
		His intended bride to be, Miyoko Watai, said she wouldn't mind even if this only a desperate gambit by Fischer.
		Watai, the 59-year-old acting president of the Japan Chess Association, said in remarks to reporters intended to explain a faxed statement on Tuesday that she and Mr.
		Watai said reports had the girl being born in August 2000, which would have made it impossible for Bobby to be the father as he was with her in Tokyo in February of that year."
	www.chessninja.com /dailydirt/2004/08/catch_64.htm (503 words)

	Bobby Fischer: Don't Send Me Back, Chess Genius Appeals Japan's Plan To Deport Him To U.S. - CBS News
		Watai also says Fischer is "a pathetic sight" in custody.
		Fischer, 61, was detained by Japanese immigration officials last week after trying to leave the country for the Philippines.
		"It is a race against time," says Watai.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/07/16/world/printable630102.shtml (614 words)

	Ex-chess champ Fischer detained in Tokyo
		Miyoko Watai, a longtime friend of Fischer's, told The Associated Press she had talked to him in custody.
		She said he was told he would be deported, but was planning to appeal.
		Fischer had long been rumored to be living in Japan, aided and sheltered by chess devotees, and is believed to have frequented a Tokyo chess club.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-07/17/content_349344.htm (942 words)

	Bobby Fischer's companion angry over treatment of chess icon - News
		Miyoko Watai, Fischer's longtime companion, says she isn't going to break the silence.
		Watai got swept up in the Fischer saga after he was detained, "kidnapped" is the word she and Fischer use, by Japanese authorities at Tokyo's Narita airport in July 2004.
		At a news conference before leaving Japan, she denied allegations the engagement was a ploy to confound Japanese immigration officials.
	media.www.dailyvidette.com /media/storage/paper420/news/2006/12/01/News/Bobby.Fischers.Companion.Angry.Over.Treatment.Of.Chess.Icon-2516560.shtml (543 words)

	Sam Sloan's Family Tree - pafg448 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		He married Miyoko WATAI in Aug 2004 in East Japan Immigration Detention Center, in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
		Miyoko WATAI [scrapbook] was born on 8 Jan 1945 in Japan.
		TOKYO, 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.
	www.samsloan.com /pafg448.htm (820 words)

	Barista » Blog Archive » standing up for a boiled egg
		In September last year, his Japanese fiance, Miyoko Watai, gave a touching interview to Chessbase news, in which she explained that:
		Mainichi News reported on March 15th that Miyoko Wata is still his fiancee, and supports him in prison, which detains people unwanted in Japan but unable to leave - a familiar category in our politics.
		Ushiku breakfasts consist of a slice of white bread, jam, fruit juice or milk and a boiled egg.
	barista.media2.org /?p=1669 (1633 words)

	My Way - News
		In the latest twist to a bizarre tale, former world chess champion Fischer, 61, has decided to marry Miyoko Watai, acting head of the Japan Chess Association, his lawyer, Masako Suzuki, said Monday.
		Watai, 59, is a four-time Japan women's chess champion and has been a vocal supporter of Fischer since he was detained last month at Tokyo's Narita airport when he tried to leave for Manila on a passport that U.S. officials say was invalid.
		A Philippine newspaper quoted a local chess grandmaster as saying that Fischer had a Filipino wife and a child living in the country.
	news.myway.com /world/article/id/416708\|world\|08-16-2004::08:46\|reuters.html (639 words)

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		His peripatetic lifestyle — shuttling between his base in Tokyo and outposts in, among other places, Hungary and the Philippines, where a daughter was reportedly born in 2000 — implies that he frequently passes through immigration controls.
		Watai said the sequence of events concerning Fischer's passport status raises questions about Washington's interest in the former chess champion.
		A Japanese government document also posted by Watai indicated that Fischer's passport was accepted as valid when he entered Japan on April 15 on a 90-day visa.
	www.staticfiends.com /suburbia/viewtopic.php?p=2263 (1245 words)

	Chess: play online chess
		Bobby Fischer and his fiancee, Miyoko Watai, organized a "chess-couple convention" in Iceland.
		When all the guests had to leave, Miyoko said good-bye to everyone and asked "How many games did you play here?" She got all different answers (=numbers).
		However many games Miyoko played is immaterial, though according to the parameters of the puzzle, it must have been not more than 128.
	uskidscompute.com /online/chess/3635.shtml (1473 words)

	Detention
		He was on his way to Baquio, Philippines to resume an infamous radio talk show that he hosted two years ago over a local station.
		I don't understand why his passport was revoked." Watai told The Associated Press she had talked to Fischer in custody.
		Miyoko Watai Japan Chess Association, Nishikamata 8-2-1-220, Tokyo 144-0051, Japan Tel and Fax: 81-3-3735-3675 E-mail:
	www.angelfire.com /ab7/fischer/detention.htm (635 words)

	Fischer versus Women
		Miyoko Watai, president and secretary general of the Japan Chess Association and a friend of Fischer's since 1973.
		Watai said she was not worried about a report by a Philippine newspaper on Monday quoting a local chess grandmaster as saying Fischer had a Filipino wife and a child living there.
		Watai first met the grandmaster when he toured Japan after his 1972 triumph, and after playing a match against Fischer (“He beat me pretty badly,” she says), the two remained friends.
	www.dmv.demon.nl /newpage0.html (3633 words)

	Chess legend 'seeking asylum'
		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.
		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."
		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".
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1560339,00.html (461 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Fischer renounces US citizenship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Fischer's allies in Japan: Miyoko Watai, president of the Japan Chess Association, John Bosnitch, 43-year-old communications specialist and former junior chess champion, and Ichiji Ishii is a former vice minister of foreign affairs [Photos provided by Miyoko Watai and Tama Miyake Lung]
		Miyoko Watai feels that Fischer’s troubles spring from his controversial political statements.
		Watai speculates that, like many gaijin, Fischer appreciates the country’s low crime rate, in particular being able to sleep on trains without fear of harassment.
	213.198.75.250 /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1852 (4204 words)

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