Word: capablanca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reshevsky got a job as an accountant and went on playing chess. He won five U.S. championships, and defeated the famed Jose Capablanca in tournament play. He has had only one chance at the world's championship. In 1948 Reshevsky, three Soviet grand masters and the Dutch champion Max Euwe played for the title left vacant by the death of Alexander Alekhine. Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik won the title; Reshevsky tied for third with another Soviet player, Paul Keres. Though he didn't win first prize, Reshevsky is convinced he can defeat Botvinnik in match play...
...double-faced clocks, which inexorably mark the time limits for tournament chess players, ticked off the carefully allotted seconds at Havana's Capablanca Chess Club. It was the final of a 23-day round-robin tournament involving 23 chess masters from eight countries.* The frowning concentration of the chess grand masters had barely been ruffled by the Cuban revolution. On the final day of play last week, first place was narrowed down to two Polish-born players: Samuel Reshevsky, 40, five-time U.S. champion, who toured his adopted land as a nine-year-old prodigy, jmd Argentina...
Truculent. Blunt, taciturn Chess Master Reshevsky had outraged his Cuban hosts by his point-blank refusal to join the other players in a Friday visit to the tomb of Cuban World Champion José Capablanca. Reshevsky later explained that he could not make the trip on Friday, since his Jewish religion forbids public travel after sundown. But he also demanded that the player's day off should be Friday, not Sunday. Furthermore, Reshevsky refused, up to the final day, to agree to leave the winner's trophy in Cuba. Originally donated by Argentina, the cup had been renamed...
...Post-Mortems. By the time Spilsbury died in 1947, at 70, he had performed the stupendous total of 25,000 postmortems. "To the man in the street he stood for pathology as Hobbs stood for cricket or Dempsey for boxing or Capablanca for chess." When he gave a lecture, sensitive listeners swooned away, but hardier souls became his disciples forever. "To watch Sir Bernard . . . demonstrating on ... a kidney," said a nostalgic old student, "was-I should imagine-like watching Turner paint...