MSK Chess's video: The Rossolimo Sicilian : Keller v Lombardy 1961

As far as chess legends go you don't get much more legendary than Grandmaster William Lombardy. Born in New York on December 4th 1937 he learned to play chess at the age of nine. When Lombardy was about ten 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 his life." 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. - William Lombardy. Lombardy is probably most famous for his role as Fischer's second in the world championship match in Reykjavik Iceland, 1972. Still a Catholic priest at the time he got time off the priesthood to help Fischer with adjourned games of which there was fourteen. His contribution was essential to helping Fischer to the title King of Chess. The game itself is taken from the American Chess Quarterly Magazine, edited by Grandmaster Larry Evans, edition, Fall of 1961 and entitled The Rossolimo Variation. Grandmaster Lombardy's phenomenal positional skill backed up by solid calculation are self evident as he first opens the position for his two bishops and then consolidates his position negating the white initiative with the awesome 17...f6. White sets a cunning trap leaving his backward queen pawn en-prise but Grandmaster Lombardy has seen that it give white too much counter-play and refuses the offer. A superbly played game and well worth studying in-depth. I am especially thankful to a very generous friend from Texas for sending me the entire American Chess Quarterly review magazine without which this video would not have been possible. I share it with you chess friends for your enjoyment and edification. I am also grateful to the following, artists: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Texas-12-301997304 http://www.deviantart.com/art/Western-Beauty-103415412 http://www.deviantart.com/art/Passing-Time-415698475 http://www.deviantart.com/art/Wedding-424360433 music: Darlin Muller - https://soundcloud.com/darlin-muller/if-it-makes-you-happy me: https://www.facebook.com/msk.chess https://www.chess.com/blog/robbie_196. chess, echecs , ajedrez , xadrez , shahmati , szachy , sjakk , schach , schaken , satranj , шахматы , شطرنج