Photo shows (from left) Bobby Fischer, Jinky and Marilyn Young in a Hong Kong hotel in 2004.

A nine-year-old girl from Davao City stands to receive over P140 million if DNA tests prove that she’s the daughter of the late chess legend Bobby Fischer.

Iceland's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Fischer’s remains can be exhumed for a paternity test to settle a dispute over his estate.

The court therefore allowed DNA to be taken from Fischer's remains and compared to genetic matter from the girl and her mother.

Marilyn Young, one of the claimants, said she’s happy over the decision that could facilitate the claim of her daughter Jinky.

“Natutuwa po ako na pinayagan din kaming patunayan na si Bobby (Fischer) ang ama ng aking anak,” said the 31-year-old Filipina who Fischer met 10 years ago.

Lawyer Sammy Esti mo, who represents Young, describes the ruling as a breakthrough.

“We expect a quick resolution. As we speak, our lawyer in Iceland is now preparing a motion to schedule the exhumation,” said Estimo.

Estimo, along with chess grandmaster Eugene Torre, a long-time friend of Fischer, accompanied mother and daughter to Iceland last December to visit Fischer’s tomb and pursue their claims.

While there, they contracted an Icelandic lawyer, Thordur Bogason, to represent them and visited the same hospital where Fischer died to have their blood samples taken.

In the absence of Fischer’s DNA specimens, Estimo and Bogason petitioned the court for exhumation, a move opposed by the other claimants.

After their petition was turned down by the District Court of Reykjavik last month, Young’s lawyers went to the Supreme Court.

Aside from Young, the other claimants are Fischer’s two nephews and his alleged wife Miyoko Watai.

However, the SC declared Watai’s marriage to Fischer null and void, leaving the battle between the Targ brothers and Young.

Estimo said they have other pieces of evidence that shows that Fischer acknowledges being father to Young.

“We have letters, photos and bank transfers that show Fischer is supporting Young,” Estimo said.

Fischer met Young in 2000 at the Baguio Country Club and began a relationship hidden from public knowldge.

Young said she last saw Fischer in 2005, but kept in close contact until his death two years ago.

“Araw-araw, tumatawag at tume-text siya. Nakausap ko siya ilang araw bago siya namatay, sabi niya masama pakiramdam, di ko akalain masama na pala,” she recalled.

Young said the day before he died, Fischer was calling her.

“Pero hatinggabi ‘yung tawag, di ko na natanggap,” she said. “Nag text ako kinabukasan at tumawag din, pero di sumasagot. Masama na ang kutob ko kasi laging sumasagot sa text ko ‘yun.”

Young said Fischer sends money regularly for their daughter, but declined to indicate the amount.

U.S.-born Fischer, who made world headlines when he defeated Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in their Cold War showdown in Reykjavik in 1972, took Icelandic citizenship in 2005 to avoid being deported to the United States.

He was wanted by the US for breaking international sanctions by playing a chess match in Yugoslavia in 1992. — With reports from AFP