An eight-year-old Reshevsky performing a simultaneous exhibition in France. (The third gentleman from the right looks particularly shocked.)
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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 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. ... Reshevsky was a tough and forceful player who was superb at positional play but could also play brilliant tactical chess when warranted. He often used huge amounts of time in the
opening, which sometimes forced him to play the rest of the game in a very short amount of time. That sometimes unsettled Reshevsky's opponents, but at other times resulted in
blunders on his part. ..."
2008 October: World Chess Championship 1972, 2009 January: Sicilian Defence, 2009 February: Mikhail Tal, 2009 February: Garry Kasparov, 2009 April: Vasily Smyslov, 2009 August: Chess960, 2009 November: Bent Larsen,2011 November: The Lewis Chessmen, 2012 July: 40 Years Ago Today: Chess Rivals Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky Meet in the ‘Match of the Century’, 2015 September: The Subtext Buried In Seven Great Movie Chess Scenes, 2018 December: The Last Chess Shop in New York City, 2019 May: Deep Blue, 2021 May: Chess in the arts, 2021 July: The Sharp Game, 2022 February: Making Moves at the Marshall Chess Club, 2022 December: He’s the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat?
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