He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1934 with a degree in accounting and supported himself and his family by working as an accountant. He gave up competitive chess for seven years, from 1924 to 1931, to complete his secondary education. Reshevsky never became a truly professional chess player.
In his early years, he did not go to school and his parents ended up in Manhattan Children’s Court on charges of improper guardianship. He toured the country and played over 1,500 games as a 9-year old in simultaneous exhibitions and only lost 8 games. Following the events of World War 1, Reshevsky immigrated to the United States (1920).Īs a 9-year old, his first American simultaneous exhibition was with 20 officers and cadets at the Military Academy at West Point. At age 8 he was playing chess against strong players. He became known as a child chess prodigy and was playing simultaneous games of chess against adults when he was 6 years of age. Samuel Reshevsky learned chess when he was 4 years old.
According to New York Times: on May 17, 1920, Reshevky faced 20 players in a simul in Paris and the boy “moved quietly from one board to another, reducing their most skillful plans and wiles to nothingness.” Young Samuel - whose head was reported to be “well-shaped, but not abnormal” - had been playing since the age of 5. Twenty graybeards sitting in a square played chess in Paris against a very small boy 8 years old, and Samuel Reshevsky beat them all. Reshevsky, at age eight, giving a simultaneous exhibition in France, 1920.
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