How strong was Samuel Reshevsky
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Nov 3, 2020
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Smellfungus wrote:
Sammy was a strong club player. He knew how the horses move.
u mean the donkey? smh
Oh well. This thread has degenerated into stupidity. An intelligent discussion of chess on the chess.com forum? I knew I was expecting too much.
Cry
Elo ratings reflect performance against contemporaries. Elo himself said that, when you compare people across eras, you have to assume that the old players have the same access to opening theory and training methods as later players.
that being said, reshevsky was a top 10 player and a candidate for the world championship for almost 20 years. He lost out on one or two opportunities to play in a Candidates event because of the Cold War. And he tied for 2nd in the 1953 Candidates, where Bronstein wrote that the 9 Soviet players conspired to keep Reshevsky from winning—so he faced the same obstacles that Fischer faced.
So I don’t think it is fair to call him a second-rate GM. Yes, he was a time pressure addict so he would never have been one of the great world champions. But he was right there alongside Smyslov, Euwe, and others who became champ.
oh my, quite an achievement for u. must be quite something to be an accident huh, even more so, one that lived for this long. but yeah, i should completely listen u, oh great internet random stranger loser. enlighten me more.