1937 - 2017
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 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 350,030 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. William Lombardy is the 111th most popular chess player (down from 86th in 2019), the 5,616th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,416th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Chess Player.
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Among chess players, William Lombardy ranks 111 out of 374. Before him are Edgard Colle, Vasja Pirc, Richard Teichmann, Georg Marco, Petar Trifunović, and Igor Bondarevsky. After him are Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Oscar Panno, Boris Gelfand, Boris Kostić, Alexander McDonnell, and Wolfgang Uhlmann.
1897 - 1932
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 105
1907 - 1980
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 106
1868 - 1925
HPI: 48.41
Rank: 107
1863 - 1923
HPI: 48.41
Rank: 108
1910 - 1980
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 109
1913 - 1979
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 110
1937 - 2017
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 111
1818 - 1899
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 112
1935 - Present
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 113
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 114
1887 - 1963
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 115
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 116
1935 - 2020
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 117
Among people born in 1937, William Lombardy ranks 280. Before him are Vittorio Adorni, David Margulies, Zoltán Horváth, Anita Traversi, Moacyr Scliar, and Merle Haggard. After him are Francisco Xavier do Amaral, Vitaly Zholobov, George Chuvalo, Pino Puglisi, Rupiah Banda, and Andrija Anković. Among people deceased in 2017, William Lombardy ranks 282. Before him are Amotz Zahavi, Richard Hatch, Björn Granath, Hrvoje Šarinić, Hubert Dreyfus, and Tim Pigott-Smith. After him are Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Ruth Pfau, Derek Parfit, Oleg Vidov, Abdelmajid Dolmy, and Prodigy.
1937 - 2022
HPI: 48.44
Rank: 274
1937 - 2016
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 275
1937 - Present
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 276
1937 - 1991
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 277
1937 - 2011
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 278
1937 - 2016
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 279
1937 - 2017
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 280
1937 - 2012
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 281
1937 - Present
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 282
1937 - Present
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 283
1937 - 1993
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 284
1937 - 2022
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 285
1937 - 1980
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 286
1928 - 2017
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 276
1945 - 2017
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 277
1946 - 2017
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 278
1935 - 2017
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 279
1929 - 2017
HPI: 48.31
Rank: 280
1946 - 2017
HPI: 48.28
Rank: 281
1937 - 2017
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 282
1948 - 2017
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 283
1929 - 2017
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 284
1942 - 2017
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 285
1943 - 2017
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 286
1953 - 2017
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 287
1974 - 2017
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 288
Among people born in United States, William Lombardy ranks 5,616 out of 18,182. Before him are Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Priscilla Lane (1915), Merle Haggard (1937), Lloyd Alexander (1924), Annabella Sciorra (1960), and Neil Flynn (1960). After him are Butterfly McQueen (1911), David Crane (1957), Chi McBride (1961), Dooley Wilson (1886), Sonny Stitt (1924), and Frank Thomas (1912).
1905 - 1982
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 5,610
1915 - 1995
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 5,611
1937 - 2016
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 5,612
1924 - 2007
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 5,613
1960 - Present
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 5,614
1960 - Present
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 5,615
1937 - 2017
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 5,616
1911 - 1995
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 5,617
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 5,618
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 5,619
1886 - 1953
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 5,620
1924 - 1982
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 5,621
1912 - 2004
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 5,622
Among chess players born in United States, William Lombardy ranks 6. Before him are Bobby Fischer (1943), Paul Morphy (1837), Frank Marshall (1877), Reuben Fine (1914), and Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872). After him are Jackson Showalter (1860), Isaac Kashdan (1905), Arnold Denker (1914), Robert Byrne (1928), Nick de Firmian (1957), and Fabiano Caruana (1992).
1943 - 2008
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 1
1837 - 1884
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 2
1877 - 1944
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 3
1914 - 1993
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 4
1872 - 1906
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 5
1937 - 2017
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 6
1860 - 1935
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 7
1905 - 1985
HPI: 44.36
Rank: 8
1914 - 2005
HPI: 42.94
Rank: 9
1928 - 2013
HPI: 42.25
Rank: 10
1957 - Present
HPI: 41.64
Rank: 11
1992 - Present
HPI: 41.53
Rank: 12