Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel Reshevsky
	Reshevsky in 1964
Full name	Samuel Herman Reshevsky
Country	United States (after 1924); Poland (before 1924);
Born	November 26, 1911; Ozorków, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	April 4, 1992 (aged 80); New York City
Title	Grandmaster (1950)
Peak rating	2565 (July 1972)
Peak ranking	No. 25 (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 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.

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.