CHESS PLAYER

William Lombardy

1937 - 2017

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William James Joseph Lombardy (December 4, 1937 – October 13, 2017) 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. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1957, the only person to win that tournament with a perfect score. Lombardy led the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Lombardy has received more than 370,525 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. William Lombardy is the 109th most popular chess player (up from 111th in 2019), the 6,016th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,604th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, William Lombardy ranks 109 out of 461. Before him are Alexander Khalifman, Peter Romanovsky, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Richard Teichmann, Leonid Stein, and Petar Trifunović. After him are Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Ernst Falkbeer, Nicolas Rossolimo, Sonja Graf, and Vasja Pirc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, William Lombardy ranks 317. Before him are Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Lawrence Roberts, Una Stubbs, Ingrid Pitt, Jorge Cafrune, and Pierluigi Chicca. After him are Giorgi Shengelaia, Gyula Zsivótzky, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Chris Blackwell, Loretta Swit, and Manga. Among people deceased in 2017, William Lombardy ranks 319. Before him are Robert Taylor, Darlanne Fluegel, Armando Calderón Sol, Lola Albright, Ernst Zündel, and Pierluigi Chicca. After him are James Mancham, Türkân Akyol, Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Nicky Hayden, Abdur Rahman Biswas, and Giuliano Sarti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Lombardy ranks 6,016 out of 20,380. Before him are Ed Begley Jr. (1949), Mike Starr (1950), Norah Jones (1979), Linda Thompson (1950), Cassandra Peterson (1951), and Mark Isham (1951). After him are Richard Thomas (1951), Christopher Scarver (1969), Art LaFleur (1943), Reginald Rose (1920), Matthew Gray Gubler (1980), and Chuck Grassley (1933).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United States

Among chess players born in United States, William Lombardy ranks 6. Before him are Bobby Fischer (1943), Paul Morphy (1837), Frank Marshall (1877), Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872), and Reuben Fine (1914). After him are Jackson Showalter (1860), Arnold Denker (1914), Nick de Firmian (1957), Isaac Kashdan (1905), Robert Byrne (1928), and Fabiano Caruana (1992).

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