{"id":3228,"date":"2017-10-19T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2017-10-19T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:41:45","slug":"chessflash-world-newsoct-14-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS\/Oct 14, 2017\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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courtesy Michael Ciamarra<\/p><\/div>\n

LOMBARDY DIES IN MARTINEZ CAIFORNIA\u00a0AT AGE 79<\/h3>\n

San Francisco , California\u00a0\u00a0— This just in from John Donaldson\/ US world\u00a0chess championship team\u00a0Olympiad captain: \u00a0American chess immortal WILLIAM LOMBARDY (1957 WORLD JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPION WITH AN ASTOUNDING NEVER EQUALED 11-0 SCORE) \u2026 world \u00a0chess historical chess grandmaster figure (1972 Fischer world title match \u00a0official second) featured in haunting caricature in \u00a0the hugely\u00a0 controversial \u00a0film \u201cPAWN SACRIFICE\u201d … died in Martinez, Califfornia today amidst worldwide promotion of his fiery no holds barred\u00a0sixth\u00a0chess book, \u201cUNDERSTANDING CHESS,\u201d\u00a0 Mr. Lombardy, facing years of \u00a0the typical world class chess grandmaster eviction notices and chess\u00a0poverty well documented by great New York Times<\/em> coverage that indirectly permitted Mr. Lombardy\u00a0to move with final dignity across the nation on his\u00a0last, deeply moving\u00a0book tour\u2026 Mr. Lombardy could have pocketed a reported 20,000 dollars if he had cooperated with film producers \u2026 who still did a fabulous job in admittedly deeply flawed piecemeal fashion, capturing in stunning\u00a0fashion Fischer demons in games 1-6, the real nitty gritty (1972 Iceland ), versus world champion Boris Spassky. Fischer never won a single official game in his entire career against a reigning world chess champion, excluding that unbelievable month so magnificently sketched with cinema \u00a0scratches \u2026 beyond words in the film … Actual\u00a0on scene minute by minute events were known only to Lombardy of course … now los t\u2026 \u00a0including mystery walks in the middle of the night. Mr. Lombardy baffled the entire chess world in his final years … denying in his last epic tome the massive Bobby Fischer\u00a0tutorial\/friendship\/crash pad role of \u00a0lifetime wheelchair-bound New York chess master Jack Collins and his sister Ethel. EYEWITNESS William Addison, 1970 \u00a0US world championship \u00a0candidates grandmaster from San Francisco, \u00a0was there folks \u2026 interview 1970 … \u201cFischer was the only great American master who was actually tutored as a child \u2026 and believe\u00a0me,\u00a0Jack Collins did it \u2026 had all the literature the Fischer chess furnace could use. Collins knew how to get the train going all right … I was there … I saw it\u201d(Jude Acers remembers for Chesslab \u2026\u00a0 \u201dMy experiences with Lombardy were\u00a0few but moving. In Atlanta, Georgia [1965] he strangely, suddenly walked up to me. \u201dIf I felt about chess like you do, almost like a religion, I would be afraid to play a move.\u201d\u00a0 A giant. Brilliant. Well mannered. A\u00a0gentleman. US top ten in world chess history\u201d). ##############<\/p>\n

— Jude Acers<\/em><\/p>\n

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courtesy Michael Ciamarra<\/p><\/div>\n

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