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Lisa Lane was born on 25 April, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an American chess player. Discover Lisa Lane's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 25 April, 1938
Birthday 25 April
Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date of death 28 February, 2024
Died Place Kent, New York, U.S.
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1938

Marianne Elizabeth Lane Hickey, also known as Lisa Lane (born April 25, 1938, in Philadelphia), is an American former chess player.

1957

In 1957, while attending Temple University, Lisa struck and killed an elderly woman while driving her mother's car (Lane was not charged); this, and the end of a love affair, set Lane into a depression.

Rather than beginning to play chess as a child, Lane discovered chess in her late teens.

After investing her remaining savings in a Philadelphia bookstore, Lane began playing chess at local coffeehouses and "winning all the time", she said.

1958

After coaching by master Attilio Di Camillo, Lane won the women's championship of Philadelphia in 1958 and took her first U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1959 at the age of 21, just two years after she began playing the game.

1959

She was the U.S. Women's Chess Champion in 1959, but not a chess master.

Lane has been married twice – first to Walter Rich, a Philadelphia ad man and commercial artist, from 1959 to 1961; then to Neil Hickey, editor-at-large of the Columbia Journalism Review, since 1962.

Both Lisa and her husband were friends of Bobby Fischer and assisted Fischer in some chess articles.

(Despite her friendship with him, Fischer was not impressed with Lane's, or any woman's, chess playing abilities: "They're all fish. Lisa, you might say, is the best of the American fish.")

According to two-time U.S. Women's Chess Champion Jennifer Shahade (author of Chess Bitch, a book about women chess players), Lisa quit the game partly because she was annoyed with being identified as a chess player.

"It got to be embarrassing, constantly being introduced as a chess champion at parties."

1960

Lane appeared as a contestant on the March 31, 1960, episode of the TV show To Tell the Truth.

The four panel members (Polly Bergen, Don Ameche, Kitty Carlisle, and Tom Poston) correctly guessed her identity.

1961

She appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in the August 7, 1961 edition, making her the first chess player to appear on its cover (Bobby Fischer did so in 1972).

Born in Philadelphia, Lane never knew her father, a leather glazer.

As a child, she and her sister Evelyn lived with their grandmother and various neighbors while their mother held down two jobs.

She also appeared as a contestant on the May 21, 1961, episode of the TV show What's My Line? and stumped the panel (Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, and Abe Burrows).

1962

She held this title until 1962, losing it to Gisela Kahn Gresser.

She competed in the Women's World Championship Tournament twice, in 1962 (joint 12th of 17) and 1965 (12th of 18).

1963

In 1963, Lane opened her own chess club, The Queen's Pawn Chess Emporium in New York City.

1966

In 1966, she shared the U.S. Women's Chess Champion title with Gresser.

1970

In the 1970s, Lane and her husband opened a gift shop called Amber Waves of Grain (now called Earth Lore), in Pawling, New York.

2002

Lane had an Elo rating of 2002, a low expert rating, from the United States Chess Federation as of the end of 1961.

2018

In a 2018 interview with Sports Illustrated writer Emma Baccellieri, Lane said, "I felt it would be letting the idea of women’s chess down if I said no [to a man challenging her]", Lane says.

"I felt like I was working all the time.... The idea that I was defending my title every time I sat down to play was an unpleasant feeling, even though I wasn’t really defending it. I just couldn’t put the title of women's chess champion on the line every time I sat down to play."

On her fame, Lane said to Shahade, "I guess I was good copy. I don't think the things I did in chess forty years ago are the most important things in my life."