CHESS PLAYER

Samuel Reshevsky

1911 - 1992

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Reshevsky has received more than 1,181,848 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Samuel Reshevsky is the 21st most popular chess player (down from 16th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Poland (down from 141st 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 21 out of 461. Before him are Adolf Anderssen, Nona Gaprindashvili, Paul Morphy, Paul Keres, Ruy López de Segura, and Viktor Korchnoi. After him are Judit Polgár, Siegbert Tarrasch, Akiba Rubinstein, Richard Réti, Johannes Zukertort, and David Bronstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Samuel Reshevsky ranks 53. Before him are Sergey Sokolov, Gustav Wagner, Cantinflas, J. L. Austin, Vincent Price, and Henri Troyat. After him are Robert Taylor, Mahalia Jackson, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Alfred Naujocks, Karel Čurda, and Qian Xuesen. Among people deceased in 1992, Samuel Reshevsky ranks 38. Before him are Kaysone Phomvihane, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Lev Gumilyov, César Manrique, and Denny Hulme. After him are H. L. A. Hart, Sam Walton, Mohamed Boudiaf, Jean-Claude Pascal, Albert Pierrepoint, and Denholm Elliott.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Reshevsky ranks 226 out of 1,694. Before him are Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), Hans Modrow (1928), and Felix Hausdorff (1868). After him are Władysław II the Exile (1105), Ernst Toller (1893), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), and Siegbert Tarrasch (1862).

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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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