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Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – 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 ...
Nov 21, 2021 · Samuel Reshevsky learned chess when he was 4 years old. He became known as a child chess prodigy and was playing simultaneous games of chess against adults when he was 6 years of age. At age 8 he was playing chess against strong players.
Apr 4, 1992 · Samuel Reshevsky (1911-92) is one of the greatest American chess players in history. A seven-time U.S. champion, Reshevsky was one of five players in the 1948 World Championship tournament and nearly advanced to the championship match in the 1953 Candidates tournament.
Nov 7, 2019 · How strong was Samuel Reshevsky in his prime? Well, he won the U.S. championship eight times, the same number as Bobby Fischer. Reshevsky also played eight times in the Chess Olympiads (six times on first board).
Oct 25, 2019 · The Brilliant, Young Samuel Reshevsky. Samuel Reshevsky was born in Poland on November 26, 1911 and started to play chess at the age of four. He came to the U.S. permanently at age nine (1920).
Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born November 26, 1911, Ozorkow, near Łódź, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died April 4, 1992, Suffern, New York, U.S.) was an American chess master who was an outstanding player though he never won a world championship.
Apr 7, 1992 · Samuel Reshevsky, the Polish-born chess prodigy and grandmaster who astounded the world with his feats as a boy and dominated American chess for nearly four decades, died on Saturday at...
Over the course of his long career, Reshevsky played eleven of the first twelve World Champions, defeating seven of them, and wrote several chess books and columns. His mastery of both positional and tactical play made him one of the world’s strongest players in the mid-20th century.
Reshevsky made an indelible mark on the US chess scene, notably winning the US Championship seven times outright, the first in 1936, and his last in 1969, 33 years later. Overall he played in 21 US Championships, with 15 top-three finishes, and a positive score in 20 of them.
Samuel Reshevsky was a serious contender for the World Championship from roughly 1935 to the mid 1960s. He finished joint third (with Keres, behind Botvinnik and Smyslov) in the World Championship match tournament in The Hague/Moscow 1948, a tournament organized because World Champion Alexander Alekhine had died while holding the title.
