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| Riverbeast: Parisattack, pretzellogic, stop defaming a man who you barely know. If we were to take the worst moments youve had in your life (perhaps when youve been in a bad mood, people are harassing you, your cat died, et al) and post it on the internet, we could make you look bad to millions of readers who dont know you also. I know Bill Lombardy well. I am honored to have had him as one of my chess teachers. He is a kind hearted, good man that most players in NYC know as extremely accessible and sociable. |
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Dec-04-07
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| karnak64: Happy Birthday, Mr. Lombardy, and thanks for your many great contributions to U.S. Chess. |
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Dec-04-07
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| Strongest Force: <Perkins> related a story about someone always yapping at the back of The Village Shop...well that someone had to be "Master Richie". ;) He is good, i brought him a couple of friends: one who became a senior master (over 2400) and one (12 at the time) who became a young GM: Richie beat them every game. ;) <Riverbeast> I didn't know that you took lessons from the great Lombardy! You couldn't have had a better teacher! I talked with him on the net and on the phone and he told me his eyesight was failing. Did you know about this? This was a few years ago and i wonder if you have heard anything since... |
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| Dec-04-07 |
| ChessNe1: Happy 70th, GM Lombardy! |
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Dec-04-07
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| parisattack: <Riverbeast: Parisattack, pretzellogic, stop defaming a man who you barely know.> I have no interest in defaming the man and I'm sure neither does Pretzellogic. We're just reporting incidents/observations. There's no need for whitewash - we're all quite flawed. Obviously two such incidences does not tell the story but they add to it; everyone draws their own conclusions. Every other simul GM I saw was a treat - Benko, Larsen, Gligo, Portisch and the less than happy experience with GM Lombardy does stand out. I wish him well; he did contribute much to US chess. My moniker BTW is off an article he wrote for Chess Review in 1969 about the opening system g3, Nh3, f4, Nf2. |
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| Dec-05-07 |
| Riverbeast: <StrongestForce> No, I have not seen Lombardy in years. I took lessons from him when I was in high school and last saw him around 2001 (at the Chess Shop, of course) If you speak to him or write him again, please give him my best wishes. You know who I am... |
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Jan-19-08
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| Joshka: Maybe now with Bobby's passing, Bill will write his account of the 72 match?....just watched a video on "youtube" with Lombardy, Hort, and Olaffsson(Fridrik)...at some legends tourney last December...first time I have ever heard Lombardy speak!!..and he could pass for the brother of Orson Wells. |
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Aug-10-08
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| ToTheDeath: This story if true, does not make Lombardy out to be a nice man at all: Mednis vs Lombardy, 1978
<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 "@#$% YOU!".> |
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| Aug-27-08 |
| DoctorD: At a US Open in Columbus I was there as a visitor - Lombardy saw me watching the games and engaged me in polite conversation. He seemed like a real nice guy. Go figure. |
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| Aug-27-08 |
| Riverbeast: <Larry Christiansen told a story about this game on chess.fm today. He said that actually this game was adjourned on this position and so they had to come back the next day and play, but instead of coming to the board Lombardy sent in his sealed move, which wasn't a move at all, but rather a piece of paper saying "@#$% YOU!".> I think that's pretty funny
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| Dec-04-08 |
| brankat: Happy Birthday GM Lombardy! |
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| Dec-04-08 |
| Ezzy: Happy birthday to me and to you. |
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| Dec-04-08 |
| Riverbeast: Happy Birthday Bill, from one of your old students!
You'll have to guess who I am, but here's some hints...When I graduated from high school...Which was the namesake of where you lived and was right across the street.... You gave me a signed and inscripted copy of 'US Championship Chess' (which I of course still have - and treasure!) |
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Dec-04-08
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| talisman: happy birthday. we are in your debt for your service to the country. |
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| Dec-04-08 |
| brankat: <Ezzy> In that case, Happy Birthday! |
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| Dec-04-08 |
| Ezzy: Thanks <brankat> |
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Dec-04-09
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| wordfunph: happy birthday Fr. William Lombardy.. |
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Jan-02-10
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| chessboyjazz: http://www.williamlombardy.com
in progress now!!! check it you can take lessons with him cool!!! |
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Jan-02-10
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| HeMateMe: < Riverbeast > Is this a new website? Never seen this before. I think he still teaches, I see him now and then at the Chess shop, and at a seedy backgammon place nearby. Saw him clean out some twenty-year-old of $25, in one hour. He told me he hadn't played backgammon in several years. I think he lived (lived?) in the Stuyvesant apartment buildings near E 14 st. Obvioulsy River beast was one of the high forehead boys who went to the nearby Stuyvesannt High school, a sort of public/private school for especially bright lads. The school has since relocated to Battery Park City, at the bottem of Manhattan, a very sterile place with zero atmosphere. <Riverbeast> you will be saddened to know that your old school is full of loud kids with ipods, who can't read at the adult level. But I guess the school needed more room, or someting, mabye they just wanted a modern building. Jack Collins, the chess teacher, may also have lived there. |
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Jan-28-10
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| paulalbert: Bill gave a lecture at Marshall Chess Club last night, Tuesday, January 26th. He was in fine form, and is currently working on several chess projects, and will be giving several additional lectures at the Marshall.I first met Bill at the 1957 U.S. Chess Championship and regard him as a real treasure in the chess world.He has an enormous amount of chess knowledge. Paul Albert |
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Jan-28-10
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| HeMateMe: Are such lectures for members only, or can anyone wander in, if there are available seats? |
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Jan-29-10
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| paulalbert: Fee for nonmembers at the various lectures is almost always $10 and is open to anyone. The program schedule is posted on the club site www.marshallchessclub.org Paul Albert |
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Jan-29-10
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| HeMateMe: Thanks P. Whats your opinion of the wind down of the Polgar-- USCF affair? |
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Jan-30-10
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| paulalbert: It was the prudent thing to do for both sides, and the right thing for U.S. chess to get it resolved in a pragmatic way. Interesting for me, since I was acquainted with all the parties in the dispute, but never discussed it with any of them and have no idea nor opinion on the truth or merit of the allegations from either side. Of course, some of the related litigation and criminal prosecution are continuing, which could still bring out additional related facts. One thing that did surprise me was that Paul Truong, Susan Polgar's husband, made some disparaging remarks about the other side after the settlement was announced. Usually a prohibition on any further related remarks by either side is and should be part of this kind of settlement. Paul Albert |
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Jan-30-10
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| HeMateMe: Now that they are absolved from further liability, should Polgar and Truong make a public apology to the chess players in this country, for helping to drain the USCF budget, and making the profession here look bad, for the last year? Sometimes, a public admission, without acknowledging actual guilt, can go a long ways towards assuaging the public. I was reading an article about the settlement, I think it was either on the current stories, in the home page here, or from the ChessCafe chess links window, which claims the USCF actaully spent <$750,000 in legal fees,> much more than was publicly disclosed. The official notice on the USCF website says someting about all of their legal fees being paid by the insurer they have. The story I read mentions that these draining legal fees caused the USCF to lay off people, they couldn't pay their bills. That doesn't sound like a firm which "didn't lose any of their own money", as claimed on their home page. Hard to know which account is correct, unless you are an insider. All in all, disgraceful behavior by those who sent the slanderous emails back and forth. |
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