Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-American chess player and author (died 1992)

Samuel Reshevsky

Polish-American chess grandmaster (1911–1992)

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…