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William James Lombardy (born December 4, 1937) is an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and a 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 coached from the time Fischer was aged 11½ through the World Chess Championship 1972. Lombardy led the U.S. Student Team to Gold in the 1960 World Student Team Championship in Leningrad.〔Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, p. 43.〕 He was the only World Junior Champion to win with a perfect score.〔Kažić 1974, p. pp. 273-74〕〔Lombardy 2011, p. 66.〕 Lombardy received his B.A. in Philosophy, an M.A. in Ethics, and an M.Div., all from Saint Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie).〔Lombardy 2011, p. 150〕 He attended CUNY,〔Lombardy 2011, p. 149〕〔Chess Champion Bronxite, Enters Jesuit Novitiate, The Catholic News, August 20, 1960〕 and studied Educational Psychology at Saint Louis University.〔Lombardy 2011, p. 157.〕 == Formative years == Lombardy grew up at 838 Beck Street, Bronx, New York City, in an apartment with his parents and two other families.〔Lombardy 2011, p. 11.〕 "Bill recalls that his family had financial problems when he was young. His parents both worked and they all shared an apartment with his grandmother, an aunt and a cousin, until his second year in grammar school, when they moved to their own apartment."〔Collins 1974, p. 129.〕 Shortly after World War II, Lombardy and his family moved to 961 Faile Street, Lombardy recalled of his new apartment:〔Collins 1974, pp. 129-130.〕 I remember the winters were very tough in that apartment. My room used to sweat from the cold. The moisture used to seep through one wall. I used to have to get extra blankets to cover me at night so I wouldn't wake up with pneumonia in the morning. It was at his new home that Lombardy became friends with an Orthodox Jewish boy, named Eddie Garlerter, who taught Lombardy how to play chess.〔Lombardy 2011, pp. 12-13.〕 When Lombardy was about 10 he went to Lion's Square Den Park to play stronger chess players. It was there that a kind, old, Jewish man gave Lombardy a booklet "that would change () life."〔Lombardy 2011, p. 14.〕 Lombardy elaborated on this:〔 He took out a marble design notebook from a brown paper bag. "Here," he said, "I'm finished with it." I thanked him for the book, put it in the bag and played chess with the man. When I got home, I looked at my book... Back in those days, there were five or six newspapers that carried a chess column. Over many, many years the old man had studiously pasted some two thousand of those chess clippings into his book. I had never asked him whether he had actually played over the games in those clippings. I was about to do what he himself may not entirely have done. Lombardy did not become a member of the Marshall Chess Club until several years later (at the age of 14), when he started to get serious about his chess playing.〔''Chess Life'', September 5, 1957, p. 3. Also available on DVD (p. 139 in "Chess Life 1957" PDF file").〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Lombardy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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