Shelbourne Richard Lyman (October 22, 1936 – August 11, 2019) was an American chess player and teacher known for hosting a live broadcast of the 1972 World Chess Championship for the PBS television station Channel 13 in New York.
This broadcast became the highest-rated public television program ever at that time, far surpassing viewership expectations.
Shelby Lyman was born in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
This segment was recorded at WNYE-TV in Brooklyn and aired on 120 public television stations.
[4] When he was twenty-seven, he won the Marshall Chess Club Championship in New York City.