Samuel Reshevsky

✶November 26, 1911

†April 4, 1992

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Samuel Herman Reshevsky 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 late 1960s. He tied for third place in the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament, tied for second in the 1953 Candidates tournament, and was a Candidate as late as 1968. He was an eight-time winner of the US Chess Championship, tying him with Bobby Fischer for the all-time record.

American chess player

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Biography from the article Samuel Reshevsky on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.