Back صموئيل ريشفسكي Arabic صموئيل ريشفسكى ARZ Samuel Reşevski Azerbaijani ساموئل رشفسکی AZB Самуел Решевски Bulgarian Samuel Reshevsky Breton Samuel Reshevsky Catalan Samuel Reshevsky Czech Samuel Reshevsky German Samuel Reshevsky Spanish
| 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 mid-1960s: he tied for third place in the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament, and tied for second in the 1953 Candidates tournament. 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.