Naysayers can have their say, but their posts drift away in the wind like a random tumbleweed

I am no great fan of Reshevsky, but one should put aside bigotry and focus on the facts: he was a really great player

For him though, no pity, he left his mark

A mark that ignorant people cannot remove

He was supported by a group of wealthy chess fans during the 1950s.

<The mind of Samuel Reshevsky has been conditioned to this creative process for almost literally a lifetime. He started playing chess at the age of 5, he was a veteran at the age of 7, it has been his principal source of livelihood for most of his life; and when economic circumstances once threatened to infringe upon his game a group of chess devotees and admirers raised enough money to make sure that he could go on playing as long as he lived. To Reshevsky this seemed perfectly reasonable; from his childhood on, his self-assurance as a chess player and therefore as a man more privileged than ordinary mortals has been supreme.

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After a rather unhappy but necessary period during which he foreswore serious chess at the instigation of the late Julius Rosenwald, the head of Sears, Roebuck & Co., who financed his sadly neglected education, Reshevsky settled down to a scientific study of the game. He decided to devote himself completely to it in 1950 when he relinquished a budding career in accountancy, and since then the game has had no serious competition in his life, save from religion, to which Reshevsky, grandson of two rabbis, devotes almost as much time as chess. When the economic necessities of maintaining a family of four (he has a daughter, Sylvia, aged 11, and a son, Joel, of 6) threatened to overwhelm him, a fund was raised among chess lovers by the late Maurice Wertheim, a wealthy broker, which gave Reshevsky some $3,000 a year to supplement the $6,000 to $7,000 a year he makes in tournaments and exhibitions.>

from wiki:

There is the link from : <<keypusher:> <...Reshevsky settled down to a scientific study of the game. He decided to devote himself completely to it in 1950 when he relinquished a budding career in accountancy, and since then the game has had no serious competition in his life...>>

Then there is wikipedia's << He was never a full-time chess professional.>>

That's the equivalent of $90,200.21 in 2016 dollars.

Very poetic. Now please provide details about who these naysayers are, and give examples of their scurrilous attacks against poor Sammy>

Hey <MissScarlett> Go jump off a cliff

I don't provide anything to idiots like yourself, even if you did say please

Have a nice weekend

best always, morf

But they are not irreconcilable. I believe accountants in the USA have a very busy month when tax returns are due. I remember it on The Simpsons. Tax returns have to be in on a specific date. Reshevsky may have had two or three big-paying clients for which he only worked flat-out for a month or so.>

Yeah, that or wikipedia is wrong. I understand it's happened once or twice before.

Having worked at one of the big 5-8 (depending on the year) accounting firms, some time ago, "busy season" for the tax side was Jan. 1 to April 15th.

My sense (looking at Reshevsky's chronological playing record) was that he had some job flexibility and could play not only when circumstances allowed, but also when the opportunity to make some extra cash (which he was notorious for diligently chasing) came his way.

<A curious happening occurred on Saturday of the first week. Reshevsky, who is a Polish Jew, told the committee his religion would allow him to play the game, but not to take a record of it, so in case of a win he could not hand in a record as required by the rules. This was met by a steward being deputed to sit by his side for nearly four hours, recording the moves he made and keeping the clock going.>

The event was the Major Open of the BCF Congress held in Great Yarmouth.

<1931 Western Ch 9 games

1932 Western Ch 11 games; Pasadena 11 games

1933 Western Ch 13 games

1934 Western Ch 16 games; Syracuse 14 games

1935 Margate 9 games; Great Yarmouth 11 games

1936 US Ch 15 games; Nottingham 14 games

1937 Kemeri 17 games; Stockholm Ol 16 games; Semmering/Baden 14 games; Hastings (1937/38) 9 games

1938 US ch 16 games; AVRO 14 games

1939 Leningrad/Moscow 17 games; ACF Congress 17 games

1940 US Ch 16 games

1941 US ch match 16 games; NYSC Ch 10 games

1942 US Ch 15 rounds; US ch p/off 11 games

1943 NYC Rapid Transit ch 18 games

1944 US Open 17 games

1945 Pan-American Congress 11 games, USA-URS radio match 2 games

1946 US Ch 18 games; USA-URS match 2 games

1947 -

1948 FIDE WC t 20 games

1949 ->

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkY...

Must be one of these games:

Reshevsky - Najdorf (1953)

What are we seeing?