Editing Dick Schaap (section)

==Personal life==
Schaap was married twice. His first wife was Madeline Gottlieb; their divorce was finalized in March 1981.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72669764/schaaps-divorce-wife-foiled-in-alimony/ |title=Schaaps divorce; wife foiled in alimony |first=Claudia |last=Cohen |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |page=M-5 |date=March 13, 1981 |accessdate=March 4, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Schaap remarried to Trish McLeod shortly thereafter.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72670044/liz-smith-column/ |title=Liz Smith (column) |first=Liz |last=Smith |authorlink=Liz Smith (journalist) |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |page=12 |date=April 6, 1981 |accessdate=March 4, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> He was the father of six children—Renee, Michelle, [[Jeremy Schaap|Jeremy]], Joanna, Kari and David—and had five grandchildren.<ref>{{cite news|title=Deaths SCHAAP, DICK|work=The New York Times |date=December 23, 2001 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/nyregion/paid-notice-deaths-schaap-dick.html|access-date=March 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Dick Schaap|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/10/guardianobituaries.books1|newspaper=The Guardian|date=January 10, 2002 |access-date=March 7, 2015 |last1=Carlson |first1=Michael }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/sports/03schaap.html?_r=1& |title=Out of the Shadow and Into the Spotlight - New York Times |first=Richard |last=SANDOMIR|work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 3, 2005 |location=[[New York, NY|New York]] |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=March 3, 2015}}</ref> Schaap's younger brother was lawyer [[William Schaap]]. The jazz historian [[Phil Schaap]] was his cousin.

Around 1955, Schaap befriended [[Bobby Fischer]], who was at the time a 12-year-old chess prodigy, and would later become a [[world chess champion]]. In 2005, prompted by questions posed by Schaap's son Jeremy, Fischer acknowledged that the relationship was significant and that the elder Schaap had been a "father figure" to him.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2005/mar/28/chess.stephenmoss Bobby and me {{pipe}} Sport {{pipe}} The Guardian]</ref> Fischer was still resentful that Dick Schaap had later written, among many other comments, that Fischer "did not have a sane bone left in his body".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_332337.html|title=Chess legend still intrigues people|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122112239/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_332337.html|archive-date=January 22, 2008 |url-status=dead}} May 9, 2005</ref>