Samuel Reshevsky
Classical era · USA · 1911–1992
A prodigy who gave simuls at eight, and was still a title contender at fifty.
Career In The Collection
1000Games
311Wins
521Draws
168Losses
57%Score
1932–1991Active
Head-to-Head Records
| Opponent | Games | Wins | Draws | Losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miguel Najdorf | 51 | 19 | 22 | 10 | view games |
| Bobby Fischer | 28 | 4 | 14 | 10 | view games |
| Svetozar Gligoric | 27 | 5 | 21 | 1 | view games |
| Vasily Smyslov | 27 | 5 | 15 | 7 | view games |
| Paul Keres | 19 | 6 | 9 | 4 | view games |
| Max Euwe | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | view games |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | view games |
| Lajos Portisch | 13 | 0 | 9 | 4 | view games |
| Reuben Fine | 13 | 2 | 10 | 1 | view games |
| Viktor Korchnoi | 13 | 1 | 8 | 4 | view games |
| Tigran Petrosian | 10 | 0 | 8 | 2 | view games |
| Bent Larsen | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | view games |
| David Bronstein | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | view games |
| Efim Geller | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | view games |
| Jose Raul Capablanca | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | view games |
| Alexander Alekhine | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | view games |
| Savielly Tartakower | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | view games |
| Boris Spassky | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Jan Timman | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Lev Polugaevsky | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | view games |
| Mikhail Tal | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | view games |
| Anatoly Karpov | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | view games |
| Emanuel Lasker | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | view games |
1000 Games · Page 2 of 5
- 1977 vs Yasser Seirawan Black Lone Pine E19 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Leonid Shamkovich Black USA-ch B52 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Andrew E Soltis Black USA-ch C91 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Gennadi Sosonko Black IBM A68 1-0
- 1977 vs Jaime Sunye Neto White Lone Pine A07 1-0
- 1977 vs James Edward Tarjan White USA-ch A78 1-0
- 1977 vs Stefano Tatai White IBM B92 0-1
- 1977 vs Jan Timman White IBM A29 0-1
- 1977 vs Eugenio Torre Black IBM C77 1-0
- 1977 vs Cornelis Van Wijgerden Black IBM B23 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Bernard Zuckerman White USA-ch E69 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Andras Adorjan Black Skopje C42 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Vanco Georgievski White Skopje D47 1-0
- 1976 vs Bozidar Ivanovic White Skopje B12 0-1
- 1976 vs Borislav Ivkov Black Skopje C96 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Lazo Jancev Black Skopje A42 1-0
- 1976 vs Anatoly Karpov White Skopje A39 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Bojan Kurajica White Skopje A26 0-1
- 1976 vs Aleksandar Matanovic White Skopje E43 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Risto Nicevski White Skopje A76 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Jovan Sofrevski Black Skopje E97 0-1
- 1976 vs James Edward Tarjan Black Skopje D42 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Jan Timman White Skopje A16 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Wolfgang Uhlmann Black Skopje A29 1-0
- 1976 vs Rafael A Vaganian White Skopje C05 0-1
- 1976 vs Dragoljub Velimirovic Black Skopje C42 1-0
- 1975 vs Pal C Benko Black USA-ch A54 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Istvan Bilek White Lone Pine B07 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Walter S Browne White USA-ch E69 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Robert E Byrne Black USA-ch C42 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Kim S Commons White Lone Pine A40 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Kim S Commons Black USA-ch E14 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Dumitru Ghizdavu White Lone Pine D33 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs John A Grefe White USA-ch A89 1-0
- 1975 vs Lubomir Kavalek White USA-ch D76 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Alla Kushnir Black Lone Pine E69 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs William James Lombardy White USA-ch D63 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs William E Martz Black Lone Pine B38 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Edmar John Mednis Black USA-ch B44 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs David Parr Black Lone Pine C68 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs John A Peters White USA-ch E42 1-0
- 1975 vs Kenneth Rogoff Black USA-ch A30 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Duncan Suttles Black Lone Pine A16 1-0
- 1975 vs James Edward Tarjan White USA-ch A21 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Zvonko Vranesic White Lone Pine D35 1-0
- 1975 vs Milan R Vukcevich Black USA-ch B61 1-0
- 1975 vs Norman Weinstein Black Lone Pine A16 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Daniel Abraham Yanofsky White Lone Pine A30 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs Pal C Benko White USA-ch A16 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier Black USA-ch A37 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs Walter S Browne White USA-ch B36 0-1
- 1974 vs Kim S Commons Black USA-ch E95 1-0
- 1974 vs Larry Melvyn Evans Black USA-ch C96 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs Lawrence C Gilden White USA-ch A05 1-0
- 1974 vs John A Grefe White USA-ch E92 1-0
- 1974 vs Gert Iskov Black Nice olm prel C99 0-1
- 1974 vs Andrew Karklins White USA-ch E48 1-0
- 1974 vs Nino Kirov White Nice olm fin-A A34 0-1
- 1974 vs JL. Moreno Merediz Black Nice olm prel A37 0-1
- 1974 vs Renato Naranja Black Nice olm fin-A E72 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs Helmut Pfleger White Nice olm fin-A A09 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs Yrjo A Rantanen Black Nice olm fin-A B89 0-1
- 1974 vs Hans Ree Black Nice olm fin-A B82 1-0
- 1974 vs Kenneth Rogoff Black USA-ch C68 0-1
- 1974 vs Anthony Fred Saidy Black USA-ch A36 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs Gyula Sax White Nice olm fin-A A30 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs J. Schammo White Nice olm prel D31 1-0
- 1974 vs Andrew E Soltis Black USA-ch C85 1/2-1/2
- 1974 vs Dan Uddenfeldt Black Nice olm fin-A E71 0-1
- 1974 vs Norman Weinstein White USA-ch E60 0-1
- 1974 vs Bernard Zuckerman Black USA-ch C84 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Peter Biyiasas White Petropolis Interzonal B08 1-0
- 1973 vs David Bronstein Black Petropolis Interzonal C50 1-0
- 1973 vs Robert E Byrne White USA-ch playoff E92 0-1
- 1973 vs Robert E Byrne Black USA-ch playoff C95 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Helder Camara White Netanya-A A07 1-0
- 1973 vs Moshe Czerniak White Netanya-A B08 0-1
- 1973 vs Mato Damjanovic White Netanya-A A05 1-0
- 1973 vs Zadok Domnitz Black Netanya-A C95 0-1
- 1973 vs Shmuel Friedman Black Netanya-A B96 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Efim Geller Black Petropolis Interzonal C94 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Florin Gheorghiu White Petropolis Interzonal E62 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Hans Joachim Hecht White London E17 1-0
- 1973 vs Vlastimil Hort Black Petropolis Interzonal E95 1-0
- 1973 vs Werner Hug White Petropolis Interzonal E92 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Borislav Ivkov Black Petropolis Interzonal B52 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Shimon Kagan Black Petropolis Interzonal B91 0-1
- 1973 vs Avraham Kaldor Black Netanya-A C44 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Nikola Karaklajic White London A07 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Lubomir Kavalek Black USA-ch playoff C95 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Lubomir Kavalek White USA-ch playoff B37 1-0
- 1973 vs Lubomir Kavalek White Netanya-A E92 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Raymond D Keene White London E15 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Paul Keres Black Petropolis Interzonal C95 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Yair Kraidman Black Netanya-A E56 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Ljubomir Ljubojevic White Petropolis Interzonal A42 1-0
- 1973 vs Peter R Markland Black London C50 0-1
- 1973 vs Henrique Mecking Black Petropolis Interzonal C95 1-0
- 1973 vs Alberic O'Kelly de Galway Black London E16 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Ludek Pachman White Netanya-A D42 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Oscar Panno White Petropolis Interzonal D93 1-0
- 1973 vs Malkiel Peretz White Netanya-A A04 1-0
- 1973 vs Lev Polugaevsky White Petropolis Interzonal E17 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Yosef Porath Black Netanya-A E91 0-1
- 1973 vs Lajos Portisch Black Petropolis Interzonal B36 1-0
- 1973 vs Meir Romm Black Netanya-A B42 0-1
- 1973 vs Anthony Fred Saidy Black Netanya-A A36 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Vladimir A Savon White Petropolis Interzonal A77 0-1
- 1973 vs Vasily Smyslov White Petropolis Interzonal E17 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Michael Stean Black London C68 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Tan Lian Ann White Petropolis Interzonal E59 1-0
- 1973 vs Stefano Tatai White Netanya-A A05 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Jan Timman White London B08 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Borivoje Vujacic White London D55 1/2-1/2
- 1973 vs Simon Webb Black London E69 1-0
- 1973 vs Daniel Abraham Yanofsky White Netanya-A A04 1/2-1/2
- 1972 vs Pal C Benko White USA-ch A17 1/2-1/2
- 1972 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier White USA-ch A07 1-0
- 1972 vs Robert E Byrne Black USA-ch C42 1-0
- 1972 vs Gregory De Fotis Black USA-ch B20 1/2-1/2
- 1972 vs Larry Melvyn Evans Black USA-ch E81 1/2-1/2
- 1972 vs Arthur William Feuerstein Black USA-ch A04 0-1
- 1972 vs Israel Albert Horowitz Black USA-ch B70 0-1
- 1972 vs Larry C Kaufman White USA-ch E60 1-0
- 1972 vs Lubomir Kavalek White USA-ch D76 0-1
- 1972 vs William James Lombardy White USA-ch A30 1-0
- 1972 vs William E Martz Black USA-ch E79 1/2-1/2
- 1972 vs Edmar John Mednis White USA-ch A11 1-0
- 1972 vs Orest Popovych White USA-ch E62 1-0
- 1971 vs Ulf Andersson Black Palma de Mallorca B36 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez White Palma de Mallorca A22 1-0
- 1971 vs Pal C Benko Black Netanya D34 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Pal C Benko Black Palma de Mallorca A15 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier Black Palma de Mallorca B52 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier White Netanya E44 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Peter Biyiasas Black USA-72ch B91 0-1
- 1971 vs Yaacov Bleiman White Netanya A55 1-0
- 1971 vs Walter S Browne Black Netanya C94 1-0
- 1971 vs Walter S Browne White USA-72ch A39 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Kim S Commons Black USA-72ch E64 0-1
- 1971 vs Istvan Csom Black Palma de Mallorca C44 1-0
- 1971 vs Mato Damjanovic Black Netanya C96 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Gregory De Fotis Black USA-72ch E67 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Jan Hein Donner White Palma de Mallorca E48 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Leroy Dubeck Black USA-72ch B21 0-1
- 1971 vs Silvino Garcia Martinez White Palma de Mallorca A74 1-0
- 1971 vs Uzi Geller White Netanya E53 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Dragoljub Janosevic Black Netanya A76 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Andrew Karklins White USA-72ch A55 1-0
- 1971 vs Lubomir Kavalek White Netanya E92 1-0
- 1971 vs Lubomir Kavalek Black USA-72ch A30 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Raymond D Keene White Palma de Mallorca A07 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Yair Kraidman Black Netanya D02 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Bent Larsen White Palma de Mallorca A43 1-0
- 1971 vs David A Levy Black USA-72ch B92 0-1
- 1971 vs Ljubomir Ljubojevic White Palma de Mallorca E92 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Antonio Angel Medina Garcia Black Palma de Mallorca B25 0-1
- 1971 vs Oscar Panno Black Palma de Mallorca B37 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Bruno Parma White Netanya E56 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Malkiel Peretz White Netanya E60 1-0
- 1971 vs Arturo Pomar Salamanca White Palma de Mallorca A11 1-0
- 1971 vs Lajos Portisch Black Palma de Mallorca B37 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Hans Ree White USA-72ch E68 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Ka Richter Black Netanya B47 1/2-1/2
- 1971 vs Arthur R Spiller White USA-72ch E42 1-0
- 1971 vs Stefano Tatai Black Palma de Mallorca A64 0-1
- 1971 vs Heikki MJ Westerinen Black Netanya B44 0-1
- 1971 vs Bernard Zuckerman Black Netanya C32 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs William Addison Black Palma de Mallorca Interzonal E49 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Jose Luis Agdamus White Buenos Aires E96 1-0
- 1970 vs Yuri S Balashov Black Skopje B30 1-0
- 1970 vs Siracettin Bilyap Black Siegen olm A48 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier Black Buenos Aires D94 0-1
- 1970 vs David Bronstein White Herceg Novi blitz A86 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs David Bronstein Black Herceg Novi blitz C36 0-1
- 1970 vs Victor Ciocaltea White Siegen olm B06 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Mato Damjanovic Black Buenos Aires B81 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Willy De Winter White Siegen olm A08 1-0
- 1970 vs Miroslav Filip Black Siegen olm E74 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Miroslav Filip Black Palma de Mallorca Interzonal E52 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Bobby Fischer Black Herceg Novi blitz A34 1-0
- 1970 vs Bobby Fischer White Palma de Mallorca Interzonal A32 0-1
- 1970 vs Bobby Fischer White Herceg Novi blitz E94 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Bobby Fischer White Buenos Aires E43 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Raimundo Garcia White Buenos Aires A79 1-0
- 1970 vs Efim Geller Black Palma de Mallorca Interzonal B83 1-0
- 1970 vs Florin Gheorghiu Black Buenos Aires E09 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Svetozar Gligoric White Palma de Mallorca Interzonal E72 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Vlastimil Hort White Palma de Mallorca Interzonal D82 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Vlastimil Hort Black Herceg Novi blitz B48 1-0
- 1970 vs W. Hoyt Black Siegen olm B48 0-1
- 1970 vs Robert Huebner Black Palma de Mallorca Interzonal A35 1-0
- 1970 vs Borislav Ivkov White Palma de Mallorca Interzonal D34 1-0
- 1970 vs Borislav Ivkov White Siegen olm C19 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Eleazar Jimenez Zerquera White Palma de Mallorca Interzonal D36 1-0
- 1970 vs Viktor Korchnoi White Herceg Novi blitz A07 1-0
- 1970 vs Viktor Korchnoi Black Herceg Novi blitz E51 1-0
- 1970 vs Bent Larsen White Palma de Mallorca Interzonal E43 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Levente Lengyel White Siegen olm E55 1-0
- 1970 vs Burkhard Malich White Siegen olm B86 1/2-1/2
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