Samuel Reshevsky - One of the greatest ever Chess child prodigies - example game vs Capablanca 1935

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[@Serganten1]

Charlie Chaplin mentioned him in his memoirs when Reshevsky was 7 years old. A funny memory from Chaplin went something like this: Reshevsky : " I will show you how to play Chess, come see me tonight when I play against 20 men" Chaplin: " I invite you to supper after" Reshevsky: "Nice, then I will make sure it ends early"

[@chevalier5691]

Thumbnail Description: Samuel Reshevsky facing 8 chess masters simultaneously in France (1920). He lost all the games.

[@yummyjackalmeat]

lol, so annoying and wrong. I see that everywhere.

[@Bustednuts.]

@@yummyjackalmeat but its funny

[@Bustednuts.]

@@yummyjackalmeat cause you expect it to say he won but it says he lost all

[@yummyjackalmeat]

@@Bustednuts. It would be hilarious if it were true that he lost the matches.

[@officialroxtimy9728]

@@yummyjackalmeat itz a meme

[@dogukanaksu9263]

I saw this photograph on internet but i thought first it is fake but now incredible wow!

[@evantr0o658]

Same

[@PANZERFAUSTER2012]

Thank you for the great game and the oustandings comments!

[@kingscrusher]

I have put a link in the description now. I believe the picture is in the public domain because it predates 1923. The picture is indicated as being from 1920. This validates it being Reshevsky at 8 years old at the time. Reshevsky was born November 26, 1911.

[@alvinpress9211]

He long lost family member got picture of him given to my father 1977

[@quagapp]

In that was Fairhurst (who you mentioned) who I met. He came out to New Zealand and played on the NZ Team in the Olympiad at Nice (1974 I think). He was at our club Howick-Pakuranga in Auckland for a while and once gave a lecture. He was an engineer and his company rebuilt the Bridge on the River Tay which had collapsed - sheered off in a storm and a train plunged into the river with loss of life....but in any case his company rebuilt it or were involved in it's rebuilding. So a bit of chess history. I also acquired that book you mentioned. He was the Scottish Champion a few times and the British Champion. He got draws with such as Capablanca, overall of course he was not in their league.

[@jeffgreen3376]

Unfortunately, Reshevshy never became World Champion. There was always someone better. Capablanca, Lasker, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian and then Bobby Fischer. Reshevsky did have the highest ELO rating, briefly in 1943 though, passing both Botvinnik and Alekhine. Then, Botvinnik got a lot better and left him in the dust in the mid to late 40's. Reshevsky made a comeback in 1952, but never made it to a World Championship Final. He then started to decline in strength in 1955, as he aged. Smyslov passed them both up from 1954-'59. Then it was Tal's turn from 1959-'61. Then Petrosian from '61-'64. Then Fischer took over from 1964-'74 and Reshevsky was far too old to compete with the young prodigy. Reshevsky was in the top 10 rankings in the world from 1935-1957 though and briefly held the #1 spot twice (in 1943 and 1952). Not too shabby.

[@eliduttman315]

Not too shabby, indeed. Reshevsky has wins against a list of World Champions, to his credit. KC made a good point about Reshevsky "specializing" in the Exchange Variation of the QGD. Hypermodern defenses against d4, anyone? Eli D.

[@Boudicca-the-musical]

The reason Reshevsky never made it to the world title was partly because he made a choice at some point in his life to focus on business and keep chess as the second string to his bow. If he had chosen to prioritize chess, he would probably have been world champion.

[@bobcrestwood740]

I would say that Sammy Reshevsky was the greatest natural chess talent the world has ever seen. He was beating his dad at the age of 4, giving exhibitions at 6 or 7, competed in a master tournament at 9, and taken out of chess at 10 to concentrate on schooling. He came back in his early 20's without playing hardly any chess in the interim, and was beating the top players in the world. He was an accountant by trade, never a professional chess player, but was still probably the best player in the world from the late 1930's to the late 1950's. The reason he didn't become world champion is that the Soviets ganged up on him and rigged the Candidates Tournaments (for example, Keres lost all his games against Botvinnik to pad his score in the first championship tournament in 1948). They did the same thing later against Fischer, but by then, the FIDE was catching on, and they switched to Candidates Matches to prevent that from happening again, which allowed Fischer to become champion, but Reshevsky never had the benefit of that. Even Fischer said that Reshevsky could have easily beaten Botvinnik in a match.

[@DexterHaven]

+Bob Crestwood Interesting if Sammy had stuck with chess, which was not a profession back then for Americans. Sammy and Fischer had a heated rivalry, as I recall... I wonder if they ever warmed to each other, and what Sammy thought of Fischer by 1972?

[@bobcrestwood740]

Sammy and Bobby did have a rivalry, and after Fischer won a few US championships in a row, there was heated debate among chess fans who the best player in the US was, so they played a match. The score was tied up 6 1/2 - 6 1/2 when Fischer forfeited the match by refusing to play the 14th game when it was rescheduled. They never warmed to each other because of Fischer's anti-Semitism. Sammy was Jewish, and Fischer hated Jews (even though he was one himself), and as time went on, his hatred for Jews got worse and worse, so there was no chance of a reconciliation between them.

[@DexterHaven]

Trivia Q: Did Bobby ever lose a US Championship tournament that he entered? Bob Crestwood

[@bobcrestwood740]

No. He played in 8 US championships and won them all. After the 4th win, Reshevsky commented that although Fischer had better results in the tournament than himself, the same would not be true in a match. This led to the match between them in 1961. With the score tied up, Fischer refused to play a game that was rescheduled to play at a time that Fischer didn't like. The organizers of the match were willing to erase the forfeited game from the record and continue the match, but Fischer put up so many extra demands that they finally gave up and ended the negotiations without a settlement, making Reshevsky the winner by default. Many people speculated that Fischer was being impossible to deal with on purpose, because he doubted he could win the match. The same type of speculation occurred after Fischer exhibited similar behavior that resulted in him forfeiting the match against Anatoly Karpov for the defense of his World Championship title in 1975.

[@DexterHaven]

OK, and Fischer may not have wanted to face Spassky by that logic, since he made so many objections and didn't show up when he was supposed to. Kissinger finally had to talk him into it for the good of the USA. More money was raised too. Maybe he got cold feet before tough opponents - or would not risk losing to them without huge financial rewards in place, since many caved to his demands and thus rewarded them. Bob Crestwood

[@rgsliwa8298]

I know in my heart he was one of the greatest chess players too come from Polonia.

[@robertleeluben]

Wow he really got ole Capa's nuts in a twist there.

[@drutgat2]

Thank you. I very much enjoyed this. It seems to me, though, that Reshevsky won this game because of Capablanca's mistakes, rather than any phenomenal playing on Reshevsky's part (not to take anything away from his obvious genius as a player).

[@twinturbohenry]

Brilliant analysis!

[@nwordpassifyousub2303]

He’s my great uncle

[@lemailsen]

For real?

[@ronaldrmcl6166]

yeah bro totally

[@eliduttman315]

In his lengthy career, Reshevsky had wins over several World Champions. Capablanca was not alone. Reshevsky certainly ranks with Rubenstein and Keres as being a contender for the strongest player who never became World Champion.

[@davidcopson5800]

Agreed. Korchnoi might want to get on to that list too.

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[@chrisiver8506]

I've read about this game in Kasparov's book about bobbyfischer, some very nice positional ideas for the time to focus on black's weak d5 square If you haven't read the book I would encourage it, theres alot of good analysis from Kasparov.

[@diosdadoapias]

Good for this guy for he was born with a brilliant mind for chess-gifted; and yet he failed to win a world championship. But Tal who was just a mere very good chess player- without a gift of a brilliant mind but learned to play chess and rapidly developed later, was able to win a world championship. I think what Aristotle (?) said applies to Tal. He said that in this kind (chess) of game, the one with a very good focus or concentration on the game , although he is not brilliant can or will win as against one who is brilliant but have no good focus on the game. This focus ,i think is more than just being alert and able to see the correlation of the pieces across the board but that chess instinct.

[@bumblebeemoi]

+dosdadio siapa You are concluding that Sam did not have the needed focus? Absurd.

[@wellllew3591]

dosdadio siapa empty mindless rambling egoistical boring rhetoric. you

[@DavidMilberg]

Wow! What a precocious child.

[@Jashn20002000]

Something just struck me as I was watching this video at Half speed with a timer set for twenty minutes it was a perfect representation of a time dealation field.

[@rbueno55]

Reuben Fine also came ahead of him in the late 30`s

[@jeffgreen3376]

At the 14:43 time marker, interesting is Nxd5. Then black wouldn't have time to take a4, due to the threat of NxB (and then he has the threat of Ne6, forking the king and rook). It gets pretty crazy if black replies to Nxd5 with the RxN exchange sac though. Maybe Reshevsky preferred the safer path.

[@satanstrilogy2288]

Thanks.

[@LuisFernandoGaido]

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[@Ahldor]

wow, what a great game! Alot of interesting things going on.

[@jamesconner1639]

Subbed!!

[@AndrewBackhouse1]

Sam's the man

[@johnadams3259]

Great game. I enjoyed it. :)

[@quagapp]

Well, having said all that I failed to find Qa4! Which is a good move it is clear once one sees it!

[@davidcopson5800]

I was eating my evening meal at the computer and saw Qa4 in a few seconds (I don't always see these 'amazing' moves).

[@hellwroughtangel]

I always like dancing knights *laughs*

[@bugisami]

I remember reading somewhere that one should not fear playing with an isolated QP.

[@hellfullart]

speed 1.75 make it more easy to see, guys

[@sethkang4410]

the guy w glasses was like. wtf??????

[@wilsonpereira1307]

Dear Kingcrusher, Could you please let me know the source of this famous photograph of Reschevsky, and the outcome of the simul he gave at 8 years old? I thank you in advance.

[@dtouey]

Is that Joseph Conrad on the left?

[@FoxesDragonsAndVirgosConstVids]

on 23:04 of the video it's time to black to play. .... QxR - RxQ Rx R and then the exchange of a rook for the white queen. Black wins.

[@shawnpavlik1293]

No, because after black plays QxR, White also plays QxR with check, then after the black king moves, RxQ, and white is up a full queen and wins the game.

[@shawnpavlik1293]

Oops, I was wrong. Black's QxR is met with white's QxR, K moves to h6 or h8, and Q goes to g7, checkmate.

[@pierremontz2628]

The fall of the d5 pawn.

[@jonphvall]

search for samuel reshevsky on Wiki. The picture is there.

[@Neueregel]

GG

[@stargosu]

No more lichess kc?

[@gershontokugawa9508]

Pro

[@GamePerFrame]

Link to the picture?

[@bobfree1226]

Fisher destroyed revshevsky an im not being disrepectful.he was a great chess player

[@Boudicca-the-musical]

Presumably you mean in tournaments play after their match, which ended 5.5 each, when Fischer refused to play because he objected to a rescheduling on one of the games.

[@poochpoints]

Did he say "E free" or is it "E three"?

[@amosdraak3536]

E3

[@toddtrimble2555]

Is it really pronounced "rezevsky"? I've always pronounced it as you would expect according to ordinary English phonics.

[@hyzercreek]

It's just his accent. He also pronounces threat as fret, and thing as fing, and three as free.

[@davidcopson5800]

@Todd Trimble: It rattled my cage too. I have always pronounced it Resh-evs-ky. Of course, people from the London region (not necessarily from the capital itself) go light on certain consonants. 'Th' and the solitary 't' are frequently absent or nearly so, e.g. forty fousand fevvers on a frush; or quality pronounced as 'quali'y'. These are all down to aspects or regional accent. Perhaps we should be more forgiving. But that "Rezevsky" is a bit much.

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[@satrickptar6265]

Wait, who's the 2nd man in the left? He looks like Putin. Unless... Putin's a time traveler.

[@MrBaroquer]

Rook b3=be free from another past child prodigy-Capablanca. :)

[@cofgoss4061]

Vengó por un meme XD

[@sethkang4410]

Gambit.

[@usnva5638]

You have an extremely annoying pop-up window in your chess program!

[@judas1705]

Venga por el meme lol

[@bobfree1226]

Fisher was much better -no doubt.HE ate up reschevsky

[@Aeschlimann1]

Don't believe the hype.

[@davidcopson5800]

What hype?

[@porcospino289]

Very annoying to hear this guy butcher Reshevsky's name simply because he doesn't know now to pronounce "sz" or so in Polish. I've heard it butchered eight times so far and can't tolerate any more. I lasted less than four minutes into this thing.

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[@sophiadolor4775]

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