Hugh Edward Myers vs William James Lombardy (1957)

Hugh Edward Myers vs William James Lombardy
Manhattan Chess Club Champ 1957 · Formation: King's Indian Attack (A07) · 1-0

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Apr-21-12		DanielBryant: 16.Ne5! is a simple but attractive move.

Apr-22-12		jackpawn: According to Myers (from one of his books) Lombardy didn't actually resign. Simply left the board and let his clock run out. Class act.

Apr-22-12		King Death: <jackpawn> This reminds me of a story Speelman tells in his best games collection when I saw it a long time ago. One player was sealing in a hopeless position and his move was something like "Good morning $*!hole".

Apr-22-12		DanielBryant: <jackpawn> Maybe he just wanted to emulate the loser of this game? Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895

Apr-22-12		jackpawn: <King Death> I certainly don't condone that sort of thing, but I have to admit it made me chuckle!

Apr-22-12		NM JRousselle: I was in Mexico City in 1980 when Spassky played Portisch in a candidates match. Lombardy fell asleep and began to snore loudly. Portisch heard it and the ushers had to escort Lombardy from the hall. I wanted to laugh so hard.

Apr-22-12		savagerules: Funny about the snoring Lombardy. For a priest it seems that Lombardy was/is not a very likeable personality in the stories I've seen about him.

Apr-23-12		FSR: <King Death> Essentially the same story has been told about Lombardy in Mednis vs Lombardy, 1978. According to <PinkPanther> in the comments to that game: <Larry Christiansen told a story about this game on chess.fm today. He said that actually this game was adjourned on this position and so they had to come back the next day and play, but instead of coming to the board Lombardy sent in his sealed move, which wasn't a move at all, but rather a piece of paper saying "@#$% YOU!".> Nice guy.

Apr-23-12		FSR: Poor Myers had no biography. I've rectified that, using the Wikipedia article that I wrote about him. (And a fine article it is, as Edward Winter observed in one of his posts.)

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