Miyoko Watai

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Miyoko Watai (渡井美代子, Watai Miyoko^?, born c. 1945) is a Japanese women's chess champion, and the general secretary of the Japan Chess Association. She lived in the old Kamata ward now part of Ota, Tokyo.

In 1973 she met then world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and visited him several times for the next three decades. Since 2000 they have been living together in a de facto marriage at her home. After Bobby Fischer's arrest in 2004 July 13 for trying to travel with a revoked U.S. passport, she campaigned for his freedom. As of April 2005 she is dwelling with Fischer in Iceland.

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• FIDE rating card for Miyoko Watai
• Chess News - We want to live together forever. ChessBase.com. Retrieved on 19 March, 2005.