Talk:Bobby Fischer

Fischer didn't play for Iceland
I removed Iceland from the "country" entry in the infobox. As it's been there since 2007, I should explain why. There've been recurring discussions about how to describe Fischer's nationality (here, here, here, here and most recently here), but the "country" entry in Infobox chess biography refers to the chess federation(s) the player was or is affiliated with, not the player's nationality or citizenship. (It doesn't say so in the template documentation (maybe it should), but you can see in articles where more than one "country" is listed (e.g. Fabiano Caruana) that that's how that entry is consistently used.) Fischer was never affiliated with the Icelandic Chess Federation. As mentioned in several of the above-linked discussions, he never played for Iceland and in fact didn't play any official games while he lived there. His FIDE page still lists his federation as USA, and the FIDE archive of transfers doesn't list a transfer for him. Joriki (talk) 17:38, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

William Lombardy
Here is my my long understanding of William Lombardy's place in the story of Bobby Fischer.

Fischer was disqualified from the world championship with Spassky for not showing up for the qualifying match and so the right to challenge went to Lombardy. Lombardy knew that Fischer, not him, had best real chance of beating Spassky so he stepped aside.

I think this is interesting to know about Lombardy and his vital role not just as Fischer's second but in insuring that the U.S.A won. 2601:589:8101:2560:7179:8FA0:A095:6E0D (talk) 03:58, 25 April 2024 (UTC)