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Samuel Herman Reshevsky 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 Champi…
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Born 26 November 1911 · Died 4 April 1992 · Q311737
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By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.
I would settle for 19th place – if Fischer placed 20th.
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“By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.”
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Just after his death the previous year, confirmed long-standing rumours by writing that the nine Soviet grandmasters (out of a field of 15 players) at Zurich were under orders from both their chess leadership and the KGB
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Died 1992-04-04.
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However, Reshevsky said the decision not to go was his
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But lost the playoff in 1973 to Robert Byrne
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The only time the two men appeared in the same team
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But lost the subsequent quarterfinal match to Viktor Korchnoi the following year
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But it was a four-game playoff match following the Amsterdam 1964 Interzonal, where he had tied for 8th–9th with the Hungarian Champion Lajos Portisch
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Reshevsky began a 16-game match with the then-current US Champion Fischer; it was jointly staged in New York and Los Angeles
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“I would settle for 19th place – if Fischer placed 20th.”
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Defeated William Lombardy by (+1−0=5)
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New York hosted the first eight games of an informal match for "The Championship of the Free World" between Reshevsky and Polish-Argentine grandmaster Miguel Najdorf
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Defeated Svetozar Gligorić by (+2−1=7)
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Reshevsky was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, on its inaugural list
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While holding the title, which was an unprecedented situation
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Shared first at Kemeri, Latvia, and in 1938 shared fourth in the famous AVRO tournament in the Netherlands, which featured arguably the eight strongest players in the world
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And bronze in 1974, and winning an individual bronze medal for his performance on board one in 1950
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With a trip to England, where he won at Great Yarmouth with 10/11
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With a degree in accounting, and supported himself and his family by working as an accountant
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At Tulsa; this event was known as the Western Open at the time
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Born 1911-11-26.
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