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Samuel Reshevsky, born Szmul Rzeszewski in Ozorków, was a male chess player, journalist, and athlete. He held the title of Grandmaster and represented the United States in his sporting career. Reshevsky was a citizen of both Poland and the United States. He was educated at the University of Chicago and spoke Polish and English.
His professional work included fields in chess and accounting. Reshevsky participated in the 7th, 9th, 10th, and 13th Chess Olympiads. He authored several works, including *Der schachwunderknabe Samuel Rzeschewski in Amerika*, *Learn Chess Fast*, *Art of Positional Play (Chess)*, *Best Games of Chess*, and *Great chess upsets*. He died in New York City.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1911
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Der schachwunderknabe Samuel Rzeschewski in Amerika
- Learn Chess Fast
- Art of Positional Play (Chess)
- Best Games of Chess
- Great chess upsets
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 6
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,832x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,708x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,840x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,382x
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Key facts
- Full name
- Samuel Herman Reshevsky
- Born
- Szmul Rzeszewski , ( 1911-11-26 ) November 26, 1911, Ozorków , Congress Poland , Russian Empire
- Died
- April 4, 1992 (1992-04-04) (aged 80), New York City, New York, U.S.
- Country
- United States (after 1924), Poland (before 1924)
- Title
- Grandmaster (1950)
- Peak rating
- 2565 (July 1972)
- Peak ranking
- No. 25 (July 1972)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ozorków
- Place of death
- New York City
- Educated at
- University of Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 21st Chess Olympiad
- Field of work
- accounting
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Samuel Reshevsky 1964.jpg
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- Commons category
- Samuel Reshevsky
- date of birth
- 1911-01-01
- date of death
- 1992-01-01
- title of chess person
- Grandmaster
- name in native language
- Szmul Rzeszewski
- birth name
- Szmul Rzeszewski
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Encyclopedic overview
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 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samuel Reshevsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.