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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 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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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, William Lombardy ranks 111 out of 374Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, William Lombardy ranks 280Before 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 282Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Lombardy ranks 5,616 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In United States

Among chess players born in United States, William Lombardy ranks 6Before 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).