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| Jan-14-21 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: What "New York Post" wrote, is a horrible story - regardless if it is true or not. The problem is, that William Lombardy died 3 years ago and could not prove his innocence or concede his guilt. So his reputation as human being and maybe chess player also will be damaged or even destroyed in any case - very sad news indeed. |
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| Jan-14-21 | | SChesshevsky: Related to the allegations against Lombardy, think it's important to note that the "news" release noted above, which I'm assuming is also the key source for the Post, was issued by the involved law firm. Also interesting was a previous topic related press release by the same law firm. Linked to on the Lombardy press release page. Might raise questions about how much of this is related to justice and how much is related to business on something that's probably impossible to prove or disprove. |
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Jan-14-21
 | | Joshka: <FSR> Typical behavior from the media to have folks believe their agenda, disgraceful indeed....but then again look what they do against our President. Nothing surprising just typical. Bobby called out the media all thru his years, over and over again, lies, lies, lies, manipulation....not an ounce of truth. Charges against Lombardy, but instead of showing his photo, they of course show Bobby Fischer!!! EVIL is not even strong enough for what they are!!! |
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Jan-23-21
 | | FSR: Weird factoid: Lombardy is the third World Junior Champion to die. The first two were Tony Miles and Mark Diesen, both of whom died young. Apart from Lombardy, all of the first 12 World Junior Champions are still alive. The first three champions, Ivkov, Panno and Spassky, are all in their eighties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World... |
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| Jun-24-21 | | Zugzwangovich: In his latest book "Bobby Fischer and His World", John Donaldson mentions Lombardy's "victory in the 1959 U.S. Invitational--a de facto national championship." Does anyone out there have a clue as to what this event was? |
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| Jun-24-21 | | Paint My Dragon: <Zugz> That would be the Log Cabin Invitational in West Orange, 7-22 August. Ten players, and quite a strong field when you consider that Sherwin finished last). Lombardy 7/9, Benko 6.5, Evans 6, Bisguier, R Byrne 5 ... etc. |
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Jun-24-21
 | | perfidious: The irony is that Sherwin fared better in the actual 1959 US Championship, finishing eighth with 5/11. |
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| Jul-24-21 | | Caissanist: I'm not surprised by <FSR>'s factoid, it seems that relatively few GMs die from their late sixties to mid seventies--say, from ages 67 to 77. I guess the game makes sick people sicker, and healthy people healthier, or something like that. |
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Jul-24-21
 | | HeMateMe: Russian GMs probably die younger. Booze, cigarettes and a sedentary life style have been the bane of Russian men. |
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Jul-24-21
| | perfidious: Tournament chess, same as poker in any form, is a sedentary game; it is not at all uncommon for players of each to pass on in their sixties. <FSR> has often alluded to that dreaded number of 64 for noted chess players. |
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Jul-24-21
| | Joshka: Many World Concert Pianists live a long and prosperous life, but I would presume their stress level is not anywhere near the level it's at playing world class chess at all.....exercise is the key I'd say. Playing top level chess is akin to being a caged animal always on the alert. Stress is a killer. The late GM Browne even wrote a book on it! |
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| Jul-24-21 | | Caissanist: Since I have almost as many years as squares myself, I prefer to focus on the benefits. Maybe being too old to play it all night at a stretch makes it healthier. |
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Jul-24-21
 | | SteinitzLives: Pro chess players (assuming they are active thru middle age), surely die younger on average than those of us who are life-long active amateurs. So, loving chess despite comparatively sucking at it, helps one live longer. Who knew there was such a strong upside! Oh yeah, amateurs probably lead fuller more balanced lives and might actually be happier, but will never know the deepest joys of the game compared to the pros. Small price to pay if it gives you a significantly longer life. For both pros and amateurs, anybody know an active player that ever got alzheimers? I don't. |
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| Jul-24-21 | | Caissanist: I know of one strong master who died from Alzheimers, Albert Pinkus , who died from it in 1984 after a long struggle. According to Arnold Denker, he continued to play chess even after showing symptoms but eventually had trouble remembering to punch his clock after moving. I've never heard of a GM getting it. |
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Jul-25-21
| | perfidious: Denker related some fascinating tales of Pinkus' life during the 1930s and 1940s in his work on players he knew. |
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| Jul-25-21 | | Caissanist: In his 1970s column for <Chess Life & Review>, Lombardy offered up an aphorism which I have found helpful in understanding positional play in the middlegame: <The existence of central pawn
tension (pawns able to resolve the con·
flid by capturing one another but reo
fusing to do so) generally favors the
side with the greater space.> |
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Jul-27-21
| | HeMateMe: I used to own the Denker book, can't remember much about it. I think he knew Fischer as a teenager, when Bobby was being driven around to tournaments by Larry Evans. |
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Jul-27-21
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<perfidious> Denker most certainly did. His superb chess reminiscence bristles with such robust, insightful chapters as the one on Albert Pinkus . Many will not realize just how strong and remarkable a player Pinkus was. I continuously read Denker and Parr's <"The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories."> I have done so for years and I will never stop doing so. By coincidence I recently re-read the Pinkus chapter. What a mensch! That goes for both Pinkus and Denker. =============
-The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories, by Arnold Denker and Larry Parr, San Francisco, Hypermodern Press, 1995 |
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Dec-09-21
 | | PawnSac: is it my imagination? or does Lombardy look like Dan Ackroyd? lol |
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Dec-09-21
 | | moronovich: Nope.It is the other way round <PawnSac> ;) |
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Jan-13-23
 | | MissScarlett: Chess Life & Review, September 1978, p.471:
<NEW YORK, N.Y. - Grandmaster William Lombardy was attacked by a knife-wielding mugger on a street near his home Sunday evening, July 16. In the scuffle, tendons in two fingers of Grandmaster Lombardy's left hand were severed. He is left-handed. The thirty-year-old grandmaster hurried to nearby Beth Israel Hospital immediately after the attack, and a few days later he underwent a long operation to repair the severed tendons. We wish him a complete and speedy recovery.> |
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Dec-04-23
| | HeMateMe: Makes sense. Beth Israel is located around 3rd avenue and the teens, east side of Manhattan. That's not far from the housing complex where Bill Lombardy lived. Was Lombardy homosexual? There is a reference above to BL being accused of sexual abuse, while a Catholic priest. |
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Dec-04-23
 | | paulalbert: Bill Lombardy was married and had a son from that marriage. Of course being a Roman Catholic priest, he left the practice of priesthood, although he told me that, once divorced, he had been requesting his Bishop to grant him again the right to celebrate Mass. Although the marriage subsequently ended in divorce, both his ex wife and son attended the memorial service for Bill at the Marshall Chess Club after his death and spoke well of him.
In my limited contacts with him over many years, I never saw any indications that he had any sexual orientation towards men or children.
Accusing people of unsavory, criminal behavior purportedly many decades before, but well after his death for financial gain seems questionable in my view, since the accused has no way to respond. |
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| Dec-04-23 | | Caissanist: The two men who accused him didn't really have much choice since previous New York law required them to make their accusation before age 23 (presumably the late seventies). Given what we know now this was obviously unjust so New York changed the law to 55 for civil suits and opened a two-year window for people to make accusations that would have been disallowed under the previous statute of limitations. The window ran from August 2019 to August 2021. |
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Jun-08-24
| | perfidious: From <Dom> long ago: <<perf> Did you say Dzhindzhi was a 'degenerate gambler'? Strange choice of words. I've known obsessional gamblers, compulsive gamblers, winners, losers, and gamblers anonymous ... but 'degenerate' seems very like a moral judgement...> A curious thing has happened: to refer to someone as a degenerate gambler (in shorthand, 'degen') has recently become something of a term of admiration in my circles, in contradistinction to the pejorative 'nit', who never takes risks. |
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