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Reshevsky, Samuel Herman A young Samuel Herman Reshevsky (left), 1922.

Samuel Herman Reshevsky

American chess player
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Born:
November 26, 1911, Ozorkow, near Łódź, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]
Died:
April 4, 1992, Suffern, New York, U.S. (aged 80)
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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. (Read Garry Kasparov’s Britannica essay on chess & Deep Blue.) Reshevsky learned to play chess when he was about 4 years old. A child prodigy, he gave exhibitions at age 6 and achieved master strength by the time he was about 9. He was brought with his family to the United States in 1920; shortly thereafter his chess activity was ...(100 of 136 words)

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