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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.
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