Samuel Reshevsky
American chess player
Died when: 80 years 130 days (964 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
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 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.
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