Samuel Herman Reshevsky

Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born November 26, 1911, Ozorkow, near Łódź, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died April 4, 1992, Suffern, New York, U.S.) was an American chess master who was an outstanding player though he never won a world championship. (Read Garry Kasparov’s Britannica essay on chess & Deep Blue.) Reshevsky learned to play chess when he was about 4 years old. A child prodigy, he gave exhibitions at age 6 and achieved master strength...