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Grand Master Reshevsky is a neat little man of 40, with delicate fingers and a bald head. He wears glasses, stands a shade over five feet, and generally has the inoffensive air of a Casper Milquetoast. But at the chessboard Reshevsky becomes a thinking machine. Smoking cigarettes, sipping gallons of ice water, he plays his own special brand of relentlessly logical chess with all the lethal poise of a cobra. Said an opponent: "I think the ice water he drinks goes right into his veins...
...chess masters have, roughly, an equal knowledge of technique, openings and variations of play. Therefore games between them usually develop into a war of nerves and a search for small advantages that are not always on the chessboard. Spain's Bishop Ruy Lopez recognized this as early as the 16th century when he recommended that an opponent always be seated so that the light shone in his eyes. Reshevsky's icy calm has a similar unsettling effect on his opponents. But the calm is only skin-deep. After match play, Samuel often breaks into a heavy sweat. When...
...news may be merely a Russian "diversion." He pointed out that the last such diversion was the 1948-9 Berlin air-lift "during which china slipped away," and added, "Whenever I find anything obvious, I look on the other side of the globe for the real move on the chessboard...
With. a sudden shifting of pawns and one of their bishops, the impassive players in the Kremlin changed the alignment of the diplomatic chessboard last week and left the rest of the world wondering what new gambit they were up to this time...
...government's expert on the London water works; he invented a slide rule, a pocket chessboard, and worked on a computing machine. He wrote for the Britannica and other encyclopedias on an imposing range of subjects - Age, Apiaries, Arsenic, Asphyxia, Electricity, Electrodynamics, Galvanism, Phrenology, Solid Geometry, and Syncope. He became a collector of chess problems, dabbled in mnemonics, astronomy, entomology, geography, and geology. In his spare time he also took up botany, and it was botany that led him to compile the Thesaurus...