sentences:  In the United States Championship of 1940, again at New York, he tied for 4th-5th places, with 10/16, behind Reshevsky, Fine, and Isaac Kashdan.However, in the 1951 U.S. Championship in New York, Simonson finished tied for 11th-12th, with only 3.5/11.His total in four U.S. Championships was 35.5/58, for 61.2 per cent.