Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Samuel Reshevsky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American chess player Samuel Reshevsky.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Samuel Herman Reshevsky was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s: he tied for third place in the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament, and tied for second in the 1953 Candidates tournament. He was an eight-time winner of the US Chess Championship, tying him with Bobby Fischer for the all-time record.

American - Chess Player | November 26, 1911 - April 4, 1992

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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

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

Samuel Reshevsky

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

Samuel Reshevsky

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Samuel Reshevsky

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Samuel Reshevsky

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

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

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

Samuel Reshevsky

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Samuel Reshevsky

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

Samuel Reshevsky

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.

Samuel Reshevsky

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.

Samuel Reshevsky

Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Samuel Reshevsky

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