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Samuel Herman (Sammy) Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1911, Ozorków near Lodz, (then Russian Empire, today Poland) - died April 4, 1992, New York, USA) was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
Date of Birth:
1911
Date of Death:
1992
Place of Birth: Ozorków
Nationality:
United States

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match, event, Hollywood, U. S., Championship and title.

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Kinky Friedman While Reshevsky won all 50 matches, Friedman was by far the youngest competitor.

Maurice Wertheim He financed the 1941 U.S. Championship match between Samuel Reshevsky and I.A. Horowitz, which was won by Reshevsky.

Samuel Reshevsky Reshevsky won the match, 11–7.

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Herman Pilnik The event was won by Samuel Reshevsky.

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1945 in chess Hollywood (the 1st Pan American Chess Championship), won by Samuel Reshevsky followed by Reuben Fine, Pilnik, Israel Albert Horowitz, Isaac Kashdan, Héctor Rossetto, etc., 28 July - 12 August 1945.

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Samuel Reshevsky Reshevsky won his third U.S. Open title at Boston 1944.

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Samuel Reshevsky Reshevsky won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1946, and 1969.

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Isaac Kashdan In U.S. Championships, Kashdan 1) placed 5th in 1936 at New York with 10/15, with Samuel Reshevsky winning ; 2) placed 3rd in 1938 at New York with Reshevsky repeating ; 3) placed 3rd at New York 1940 with 10.5/16, with Reshevsky winning his third straight title ; 4) tied for 1st-2nd with Reshevsky at New York 1942 with 12.5/15 , but lost the subsequent play-off match (+2 −6 =3); 5) placed 2nd in 1946 at New York with a strong 14.5/19, 1.5 points behind Reshevsky ; 6) tied 1st-2nd in 1948 at South Fallsburg, with Herman Steiner , but again lost the playoff match.

played :
chess, match and Champions.

Results for "Samuel Reshevsky played chess"

Samuel Reshevsky Reshevsky learned to play chess at age four, and was soon acclaimed as a child prodigy.

Samuel Reshevsky As an adult however, Reshevsky was never a professional chess player.

Samuel Reshevsky Reshevsky was a tough and forceful player who was superb at positional play but could also play brilliant tactical chess when warranted.

Results for "Samuel Reshevsky played match"

Samuel Reshevsky In his long career, Reshevsky proved to be a very formidable match player.

Results for "Samuel Reshevsky played Champions"

Samuel Reshevsky During his long chess career, Reshevsky played eleven of the first twelve World Champions, from Emmanuel Lasker to Anatoly Karpov, the only player to do so (he met Garry Kasparov but never played him).

lost :
playoff, quarterfinal, game and forfeit.

Results for "Samuel Reshevsky lost playoff"

Samuel Reshevsky As well, Reshevsky tied for that tournament title in 1972, but lost the playoff in 1973 to Robert Byrne.

Results for "Samuel Reshevsky lost quarterfinal"

Samuel Reshevsky Reshevsky qualified for one more Candidates', in 1967, but lost the subsequent quarterfinal to Viktor Korchnoi the following year.

Results for "Samuel Reshevsky lost game"

Samuel Reshevsky Reshevsky, who had been convinced that Fischer had withdrawn from the tournament, lost the game badly and complained furiously to the organisers.

Results for "Samuel Reshevsky lost forfeit"

Isaac Kashdan Kashdan would have been U.S. champion in 1942, but lost out to Reshevsky when the Tournament Director, L.Walter Stephens, scored Reshevsky's time-forfeit loss to Denker as a win instead.

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    Samuel Reshevsky

    Samuel Herman (Sammy) Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1911, Ozorków near Lodz, (then Russian Empire, today Poland) - died April 4, 1992, New York, USA) was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster.
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    U.S. Chess Championship

    | - | 1957 | Samuel Reshevsky | Match victory over Arthur Bisguier |
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    Reuben Fine

    At age 17, Fine won his first of seven U.S. Open Chess Championships at Minneapolis 1932 with 9.5/11, half a point ahead of Samuel Reshevsky; this tournament was known as the Western Open at the time.
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    Paul Keres

    Zurich 1953, tied 2nd-4th, along with David Bronstein and Samuel Reshevsky, two points behind Vasily Smyslov, with 16/28 (+8 =16 -4).
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    José Raúl Capablanca

    At Margate 1935, Capablanca placed second with 7/9, half a point behind Samuel Reshevsky.
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    World Chess Championship 1948

    These players were: Max Euwe (from Holland); Mikhail Botvinnik, Paul Keres and Salo Flohr (from the Soviet Union); and Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky (from the USA).
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    Isaac Kashdan

    At Syracuse 1934, Kashdan finished 2nd with 10.5/14, as Samuel Reshevsky won .
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    Viktor Korchnoi

    In his first match, he defeated American Samuel Reshevsky at Amsterdam 1968 by (+3 =5 -0).
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    Robert Byrne

    He won the 1972 U.S. Championship; after tying with Samuel Reshevsky and Lubomir Kavalek in the tournament proper, Byrne won the 1973 playoff at Chicago.
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    Arnold Denker

    In the next decade he established himself as a leading rival to Samuel Reshevsky and Reuben Fine as the strongest U.S. chess player.

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