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William James Joseph Lombardy (December 4, 1937 – October 13, 2017) [3] was an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and former Catholic priest. He was one of the leading American chess players during the 1950s and 1960s, and a contemporary of Bobby Fischer, whom he seconded during the World Chess Championship 1972.
Carriera. Vinse nel 1956 all'età di 18 anni il campionato canadese open e l'anno successivo divenne il primo americano a vincere, a Toronto, il Campionato del mondo juniores (under-20). Realizzò il punteggio pieno di 11 su 11, l'unica volta che ciò è successo nella storia di questo campionato.
4 gen 2018 · In 1957, in Toronto, Canada, Lombardy became the first American to win the World Junior Chess Championship title, and doing so with a perfect score of 11/11, a record that still stands today.
William James Lombardy is an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher. He was one of the leading American chess players during the 1950s and 1960s, and a contemporary of Bobby Fischer, whom he coached from the time Fischer was 11½ years old.
13 ott 2017 · GM William Lombardy, an American former world junior champion also made famous for being GM Bobby Fischer's second, died Friday in Martinez, California. His death was confirmed to Chess.com by friend Joseph Shipman, who had visited Lombardy one week prior in Berkeley, California.
14 ott 2017 · William J. Lombardy, who was one of the most talented and promising chess players of his generation, winning titles and accolades while he was still a teenager, but who all but gave up the game...
14 ott 2017 · Grandmaster Bill Lombardy died in California on Friday morning, of a likely heart attack. Lombardy was the World Junior Champion in 1957 (the first American to win that title) scoring a perfect 11-0, a performance that has never been repeated.
