What is Samuel Reshevsky?
{{Infobox chess player |playername = Sammy Reshevsky |image = Samuel Reshevsky 1968.jpg |caption= Samuel Reshevsky in 1968 |birthname = Samuel Herman Reshevsky |country = {{USA}} |datebirth = {{birth date|1911|11|26}} |placebirth = [[Poland]] |datedeath ={{death date and age|1992|4|4|1911|11|26}} |placedeath = [[New York City|New York]] |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] |worldchampion = |womensworldchampion = |rating = |peakrating = 2565 (July 1972) }} [[File:Samuel Reshevsky versus the World.JPG|thumb|280px|right|Sammy, aged eight, gives a simultaneous display. He won all of the games.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zalman|first=Jonathan|date=2015-05-15|title=This Week in Chess History: Samuel Reshevsky|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/this-week-in-chess-history-samuel-reshevsky-8-whoops-twenty-graybeards-in-paris|access-date=2023-06-11|website=Tablet magazine}}</ref> France, 1920]] '''Samuel Reshevsky''' (Szmul Rzeszewski, near [[Łódź]], 26 November 1911 – [[New York City|New York]], 4 April 1992) was a [[Poles|Polish]]-[[Americans|American]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]]. Sammy was a famous chess [[prodigy]], and later a leading American [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]]. He was a contender for the [[World Chess Championship]] from about 1935 to the mid-1960s. He came equal third in the World Chess Championship 1948 tournament, and equal second in the 1953 Candidates Tournament. He was also an eight-time winner of the U.S. Chess Championship. He was the greatest American player in the long period between Pillsbury (d.1906) and [[Bobby Fischer|Fischer]]. Sammy was an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Jew]], and did not play on the Jewish [[Shabbat|Sabbath]]: his tournament games were re-arranged. He was a regular top board for the USA at [[Chess Olympiad]]s. He played in eight Olympiads, helping the U.S. team to win the gold in 1937.<ref>Hooper D. & Whyld K. 1992. ''The Oxford companion to chess''. Oxford University Press.</ref><sup>p335</sup> Sammy was tremend