chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

278 RESHEVSKY
displays which drcs tarCc audicnces Gnd whicb
enriched his parentt were loUosed by his 6rst
rcurnadent- in Oct. 1922. He won one eame.
againsl rANows(r A honth laler his parents Nere
charged with'improper guardianship i rhe case sas
dismissed. bul a Euardian was appointed to prcvcnt
'undue explonarion . Hn education. hitherto
largelt limired ro ieligious insruction, was now
sidcncd. Altcr somc privalc tunion he Nent to a
conlenrional school lor rhe 6rt tinre in his lifc at
the age of 12 ln 1931hechose accountancy for his
subjed and in 1931 he completed his studies at
In 1935, havi.g played in half a dozen rouma
denls in lhe USA, Reshevsky comBcnccd his
career al grandnaster Ievel by winning 66t prize
(+6:l) ahead ol cApABLANcA.t Marsate, subsequently
a.hicving scveral eood tournanent perior
natrcesr Nottingham 1936 (abour catcgory 14),
$nd (+7=5 2) equal Mrh EUWE and dNE after
BoflrNNr( a.d cipablanca ahead oIALEGTNT and
FLoHRi Kemeri 193?, fiist (+10=.1 l) equal with
Flobr and pErRo! ahead ol Alekhinc a.d xFREs:
sennering-Baden 1937(aboutcalegoiy u), third
(+.1=7 3) equalsith Capablanca ater Keres and
Finei Hastings 19:17 8.6$t (+5=4)i AvRo 1918,
Iourth (+3=8 3) equalwnh Euwe andAlekhinc.
Reshevsly won foui consecutive US Championship
ton.naments: 1936 (+10=3 2), 1938 (+10=6).
19,10 (+10=6), and 19112: and he t$ice delcndcd
his tirlc in mitch play. againn EoRopnz (+3=13)
in l94l and against XASHDAN (+6=3 2) in 1912.
A deeply relieious man, marricd qnh one son
and lwo daughters. Reshelsky leli lhat.hc$ was
plaving too large a parl in his lilei in 1944 he
decidedtogivemorctimclohklamilt,toadvlnce
h( career in accouniancy. and to play chess less
frcqucndy l. 19,15 he rvon a pan-Amcrican
championship ar l-os Angeles (+9=3) and in 1946
he again won the US Chamrionship Wilhoul
lurthcr hard practice he played in thc qorld
championship match roumanent ol1948. scoring
+6=9 5 to sharc thnd phce wilh Keres alter
Bolvinnik and snyslov. In this event he was
granl.d a nes n.d special concesion: tirat he need
nol play lrom sundown Fridat to sundown SatuF
dal. He believed that his prcriously havrgpiayed
on lhe Jewish sabbath Nas a sin. hh faiheas re.ent
dcath. punishmenl. ln 1950. in the primc ol his
chess carecr, Rcshelsky $!.ted to play in rhc
CANDTD^rEs toumamcni 10 be held ar Budapest.
The srare Depanmenr reluscd ro let him travel
rhere- thus depnving him of his bcsr .hance oi
beconile a challenger aor the *orld titlc. Hc
prepared himsellfor thc next chanpionship cycle
bt rourn.nenl and match play, raking second pnze
( +9= t0) alier NATDoRF at Amsrerdam 1950, 6tsr
priz€ (+6=!t- 1) at New YorL 1r51, and defeatin,s
clrcoRra (1952. +2:r-l) a.d Najdora (1952.
+8=6 4, and 1953. +5=9 4). In rhc Crndidales
roumanrent o1 1953 Reshelsky came sccond
(+8- 16,1) equal wirh BRo--srErN and Keres arter
Smyslo!. Reshevsky, who took hh fanily wirh
him, was handicapped b, the lack ol a back,up
team of the kind .vailable to most of lhe olher
conpelitoBr hc probably co.sidered such atcam.
or even a seco.di unnecessary,
Hc conrinued to Play in strong tournadenrs,
averagingaboutone aye!r. winning at Datlas 1957
(+5=7 2) equalvith Gligoria,BuenosAires i960
(+8=1 1) equal sith rcRcnNor, and Natanya
1969 (+7=6). He won his 6fth US Championship
in 1965 (+5=5 l) aod his sixtb in 196F?0
(+5=6).In naich play hc detealed BEN(oin 1960
(+3=5 2) and met us.HER in 196l shed he was
awardedthe stakes ifierrhe match was broken otlthe
score standinC +2:7 2. In 1967 he shared
si\lh place at rhe Sousse ioterzonalialter a drawn
play-oil he Nas placed sixtb on tie-break and
becamc aC,ndidate but he lo{ b Kor.hnoi in rhe
Reshevskys games are charactcrizcd btr solid,
ralher than tashionabte, openines and a dour
posilional slyle: lor rhe 1i6r 120 moves he would
lake most of thc timc alloted Ior the firsr 40.
believingn inportant ro build a soundposnion so
rhal lunher doves could be played rapidly if
necessary. Hc published Rerlie,r/.r o, C/icsJ
(1918) containine69samcs and How Ches canes
rre wo, (1962) containinsanother60othis ganes.
The 6rsl book was ghosred byFred Rcinfeld, the
second hc wrote himself (see wlul roxMArnN. )
RESIGN, to co.ccdc deleat aitnout playing on to
tnc .heckmate. Decisions ro resi8n are often oade
dunng adjournmenr, after cool appraisal. Occa
sionauy masters resign in drawn positio.s ori more
rarcly. in won positions.
A posirion from rhe same Popicl (whne) Marco
Montc Carlo 1902. Black resigned be.ausc ollhe
PrNonthed-6lc.Hecouldh.!esonbv36 BgL.
RESULT TABLE. see cRossr^BrE.
R6TI. RICHARD (1889 192r). player. author.
and composcr. Bor. in Pczinok (rhen inHunB..l),
he (udied mathematics and thysics at Vienna.
{here he Sained excellenl chess practice, and
snortly berore the Fisr world War becane a chess
prolessioDal. Hc car.cd his livingpartly by witing
chess columns and giving dnplatsi in particular he
was erPert at BLINDFoLD.H[SS. (Al Sn Paulo i.