( CNN ) -- A DNA test on the remains of chess legend Bobby Fischer has determined that he is not the father of a Filipino girl , the girl 's lawyer told CNN on Wednesday . Results of the test `` excluded '' the possibility that Fischer , who died in January 2008 , was the father of Jinky Young , lawyer Thordur Bogason said . `` This brings about the end of this paternity case , '' he said . In June , Iceland 's supreme court ruled in favor of a request by Young to exhume Fischer 's remains in order to settle the question of paternity . Fischer 's body was exhumed in early July and reburied shortly after DNA samples were taken , law enforcement officials said . Police in the Icelandic town of Selfoss , where Fischer is buried , said at the time of the exhumation that Young was 9 years old . Fischer was 64 when he died in January 2008 . A child prodigy and chess master by the time he was 15 , Fischer achieved international fame in 1972 when he defeated chess grandmaster Boris Spassky of Russia during the height of the Cold War , becoming the world champion . The tournament was considered a symbolic battle between the two greatest powers in the world . It was held in Iceland , midway between the United States and the Soviet Union . Soviet chess masters had held the title since World War II -- until Fischer won . The victory , unequaled by an American since , was followed by tens of millions of chess fans around the world . But Fischer 's genius proved eccentric . Years after his historic win , Fischer gave up the title in 1975 and refused to defend it . He vanished and lived in a self-imposed exile for decades . He resurfaced in Yugoslavia in 1992 for a rematch against Spassky . It was another victory for Fischer , one that earned him $ 3.5 million . The U.S. government claimed Fischer 's participation had violated U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia , imposed to punish Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic , and revoked his U.S. passport . Fischer again disappeared . He was not heard from again until 2004 , when he was arrested in Japan for traveling on an expired passport . When Iceland granted Fischer citizenship in 2005 , he moved to that country and lived there until his death in a hospital .
Results show Fischer is not the father of a Filipino girl . Girl 's lawyer says it ends the paternity case . Fischer 's body was exhumed last month .