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Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel "Sammy" 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 never a full-time chess professional. He was a strong 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. He was an eight-time winner of the U.S. Chess Championship. An outstanding match player throughout his career, Reshevsky excelled at positional play, and could be a brilliant tactician when required. He took a long time over his opening moves, and often found himself in time pressure, but this sometimes unsettled his opponent more than it did Reshevsky.

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My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

Chess, Humour, Petrosian, Style, Tal

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

Chess, Memories, Mind, Stimulates, Visualization

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.

Art, Opposites, Tactics, Unrelated, Tactical

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Player, Tactics, Chess, Develop, Likely, Players

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.

Games, Make, Moving, Opponent, Phases, Time

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

Attack, Defend, Doubled, Pawns, Retarded, Weak

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Change, Matter, Play, Progress, Style, Styles

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

Calculate, Chess, Inexperience, Player, Players, Young

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Chess, Good, Rook, Working

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

Advantageous, Chess, Endgame, Player, Transpose, Winning

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

Contains, Course, Knights, Sleep, Taken, Wrote

The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader. . . Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.

Knights, Lies, Long, Lying, Single, Things