(1911-11-26)November 26, 1911 Ozorków, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died
April 4, 1992(1992-04-04) (aged 80) New York City
Title
Grandmaster (1950)
Peak rating
2565 (July 1972)
Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911[1] – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s: he tied for third place in the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament, and tied for second in the 1953 Candidates tournament. He was an eight-time winner of the US Chess Championship, tying him with Bobby Fischer for the all-time record.
He was an accountant by profession and also a chess writer.
^Andy Soltis has claimed in Chess Life that Reshevsky told a number of people that he was actually born in 1909. In an interview with Hanon Russell the year before his death, however, Reshevsky stated that the 1911 date was accurate. See Winter, Edward G. (1999). Kings, Commoners and Knaves: Further Chess Explorations. Russell Enterprises. p. 202. ISBN 9781888690040.
Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster...
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whom won matches against strong adult opponents at the age of 12, and SamuelReshevsky (1911–1992), who was giving simultaneous exhibitions at the age of...
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(White) is defending an endgame three pawns down, but played Qf2!, when SamuelReshevsky (Black) had nothing better than ...Qxf2 stalemate. In The Game of the...
next four places. There was a three-way tie for sixth place among SamuelReshevsky, Vlastimil Hort, and Leonid Stein, who played a round-robin playoff...
World Champion Max Euwe and rising American stars Reuben Fine and SamuelReshevsky, and 1 point ahead of ex-champion Alexander Alekhine. This was the...
Keres and Salo Flohr (from the Soviet Union); and Reuben Fine and SamuelReshevsky (from the USA). The proposal was modified slightly, in that the Soviet...
that time he achieved the second-highest rating in the U.S., behind SamuelReshevsky, against whom Byrne had a winning record. He was awarded the International...
scored 7½/14 for a shared 3rd–4th place; the winners were Gligorić and SamuelReshevsky. At the 1957 Wageningen Zonal, he tied for 3rd–4th places, along with...
(peak years 1948–1955) Viktor Korchnoi, 2658 (peak years 1974–1981) SamuelReshevsky, 2655 (peak years 1953–1961) Vasyl Ivanchuk, 2654 (peak years 1990–1992)...
Reshevsky vs. Petrosian, 1953 One of Petrosian's most famous examples of the positional exchange sacrifice is from his game against SamuelReshevsky in...
level. He won at Kraków 1959 with 8½/11, shared 1st–2nd places with GM SamuelReshevsky at Buenos Aires 1960 with 13/19, and won at Córdoba, Argentina 1960...
of the best-known examples of the desperado is the game Larry Evans–SamuelReshevsky that was dubbed "The Swindle of the Century". Evans sacrificed his...
July 1936; sixth, behind Capablanca, Mikhail Botvinnik, Reuben Fine, SamuelReshevsky, and Euwe at Nottingham in August 1936; third, behind Euwe and Fine...
tournament, the KGB handlers started to worry that the American candidate, SamuelReshevsky, would win, and began pressuring some of the Soviet players to throw...
(born 1970), Orthodox rabbi Shmuel Rodensky (1902–1989), Israeli actor SamuelReshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; 1911–1992), Polish American chess player Shmuel...
seven US Opens at Minneapolis 1932 with 9½/11, half a point ahead of SamuelReshevsky; this tournament was known as the Western Open at the time. Fine played...
Kemeri with 11½/17 (+8−2=7), as Salo Flohr, Vladimirs Petrovs and SamuelReshevsky won. Then he tied 2nd–4th in Pärnu with 4½/7 (+3−1=3). This successful...
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