Chess Player

Samuel Reshevsky

1911 - 1992

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His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2024). Samuel Reshevsky is the 23rd most popular chess player (down from 21st in 2024), the 197th most popular biography from Poland (up from 226th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Chess Player.

Samuel Reshevsky is most famous for being a chess player. He was the first person to win the world championship in both chess and checkers.

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Among Chess Players

Among chess players, Samuel Reshevsky ranks 23 out of 461. Before him are Paul Morphy, Adolf Anderssen, Paul Keres, Nona Gaprindashvili, Viktor Korchnoi, and Ruy López de Segura. After him are Siegbert Tarrasch, Judit Polgár, Vera Menchik, Akiba Rubinstein, Johannes Zukertort, and Luis Ramírez de Lucena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Samuel Reshevsky ranks 49. Before him are Lee Yoo-hyung, Jean Harlow, Joseph Barbera, John Archibald Wheeler, L. Ron Hubbard, and Ginger Rogers. After him are Akira Yoshizawa, Bernard Katz, Ernesto Sabato, Herta Oberheuser, J. L. Austin, and Gustav Wagner. Among people deceased in 1992, Samuel Reshevsky ranks 35. Before him are David Bohm, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Peyo, Günther Anders, John G. Kemeny, and Kaysone Phomvihane. After him are Takeshi Inoue, César Manrique, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Denny Hulme, Mohamed Boudiaf, and Lella Lombardi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Reshevsky ranks 197 out of NaN. Before him are Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Helena Rubinstein (1872), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), Daniel Libeskind (1946), and Ernst Kummer (1810). After him are Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), Richard Abegg (1869), and Frederick I of Württemberg (1754).

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Among Chess Players In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Samuel Reshevsky ranks 3. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), and Adolf Anderssen (1818). After him are Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Szymon Winawer (1838), Edward Lasker (1885), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Valery Salov (1964).

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