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Apr-19-15
 | | offramp: <MissScarlett:...a super-efficient but dull simul (against weaker players) by Reshevsky in the 1980's which I saw in West Chester, Pennsylvania...> I wonder if that is the Westchester that features in the musical Westchester Furioso? |
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Apr-20-15
 | | Troller: <MagnusVerMagnus: If Sammy was born this century he could have been an all time great IMHO.> ...And now he is not? |
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Apr-20-15
| | offramp: If he had been born this century he'd only be 15.
Sammy is an all-time great. One of the best of the 'all-time greats' because he was a natural. We can always learn from his games. |
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| Apr-20-15 | | RookFile: If they had chess960 in Reshevsky's day, he'd be the champ at that. He barely studied openings in his prime, so he'd be right at home. |
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| Apr-20-15 | | Zonszein: I think that Reshevsky even gave a simul here in Paris at the age of 8 and beat a lot of long bearded club players. There is a picture somewhere |
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| Apr-20-15 | | Caissanist: Assuming speed chess counts, the youngest player to play Reshevsky is probably Jeff Sarwer. I don't know of any game scores, but there are a few seconds of video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-W... . |
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| Apr-20-15 | | Caissanist: I don't see how Reshevsky could have a Morphy number of 2, since every player who played against Morphy had apparently died by 1911: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphy.... |
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Apr-20-15
 | | HeMateMe: In the comments section a reader says his father was "murdered by drug dealers when Jeff was 10." First time I've seen this clip or heard of this kid. Right away I had a bad vibe about the father, especially when he said he didn't want a trainer for his son. Could this kid have gone higher? We'll never know. |
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| Apr-20-15 | | Caissanist: The comment I see was that his father was "murdered by drug dealers more than 10 years ago"--so far as I know, his father raised both him and his sister to adulthood. Jeff doesn't talk about his childhood much (for a while his sister was going to write a book, but that never happened). He does say, however, that although the way his father raised them was not right, the efforts by the Canadian authorities to "save" them were worse. |
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Apr-21-15
 | | Phony Benoni: <Caissanist> We don't know the names of all Morphy's opponents, so it's possible one of them may have lived long enough to play Reshevsky. Unlikely, but possible. |
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| May-09-15 | | TheFocus: <It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame> - Samuel Reshevsky. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian> - Samuel Reshevsky. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <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> - Samuel Reshevsky. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <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> - Samuel Reshevsky. |
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| May-14-15 | | TheFocus: <The only good Rook is a working Rook!> - Samuel Reshevsky. |
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| May-16-15 | | TheFocus: <Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating> - Sammy Reshevsky. |
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| May-16-15 | | TheFocus: <No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics> - Sammy Reshevsky. |
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| May-17-15 | | TheFocus: <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> - Sammy Reshevsky. |
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| May-17-15 | | TheFocus: <Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience> - Sammy Reshevsky. |
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| May-17-15 | | TheFocus: <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> - Sammy Reshevsky. |
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| May-19-15 | | TheFocus: <Reshevsky is the exception - he is an all-round player with an all-round temperament. He has no partiality for any special type of position; he likes and plays every sort of game equally well; it is this which distinguishes him from his fellow-masters> - Max Euwe. |
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| May-19-15 | | TheFocus: <Fortified by strong nerves, devout optimism, great self-confidence, a philosophical temperament and a tremendous weight of experience, he feels confident in any position that is even remotely presentable, and is up to any task the world of his opponents may present him> - Max Euwe. - (on Reshevsky) |
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| May-19-15 | | TheFocus: <Reshevsky is the exception - he is an all-round player with an all-round temperament. He has no partiality for any special type of position; he likes and plays every sort of game equally well; it is this which distinguishes him from his fellow-masters> - Max Euwe. |
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| May-19-15 | | TheFocus: <Fortified by strong nerves, devout optimism, great self-confidence, a philosophical temperament and a tremendous weight of experience, he feels confident in any position that is even remotely presentable, and up to any task the world of his opponents may present him> - (on Reshevsky) - Max Euwe. |
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| May-22-15 | | TheFocus: <At 43, Reshevsky, despite his smallness, is an imposing figure whose icy boardside manner is a weapon which powerfully complements his wits. Barely 5 feet 2 inches tall, with a wide, bulging brow and steely eyes, he sits un-movingly erect for hours on end, his head in his cupped hands, his mouth pursed in an expression of ineffable hauteur. Most players nibble and sip at something at intervals during a game; Reshevsky eats nothing and only seldom drinks a glass of water. He chain-smokes, but in him even this habit betrays no sign of nerves. “Sammy,” a colleague once observed, “plays chess like a man eating fish. First he removes the bones, then he swallows the fish.” His self-confidence is so boundless that in tournament play, where 40 moves must be made within two and a half hours, he will spend half that time pondering a single move, feeling sure of finding one that will make the next moves virtually automatic. On rare occasions only does he leave himself so little time that he blunders through sheer haste> - John Kobler, writing about Sammy Reshevsky, in his article “Icy Wizard of the Royal Game”, which appeared in the October 17th, 1955, issue of Sports Illustrated. |
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