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Research Article

The child prodigy as a global celebrity: the chess wonder Samuel Reshevsky

Pages 293-312 | Received 22 Feb 2021, Accepted 04 Aug 2021, Published online: 03 Sep 2021

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Figure 1. Samuel Reshevsky at five years old. In Das interessante Blatt, 13 September 1917. Courtesy of ANNO/Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

Figure 1. Samuel Reshevsky at five years old. In Das interessante Blatt, 13 September 1917. Courtesy of ANNO/Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

Figure 2. Samuel Reshevsky, eight years old, during his first simultaneous exhibition at the Café de la Rotonde in Paris, 15 May 1920. Published in Le Miroir, 23 May 1920. Courtesy of Gallica/Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Figure 2. Samuel Reshevsky, eight years old, during his first simultaneous exhibition at the Café de la Rotonde in Paris, 15 May 1920. Published in Le Miroir, 23 May 1920. Courtesy of Gallica/Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Figure 3. Samuel Reshevsky, nine years old, playing against Edward Lasker at Julius Rosenwald’s home. In The Chicago Tribune, ‘Youthful chess champion defeated’, 1 April 1921. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

Figure 3. Samuel Reshevsky, nine years old, playing against Edward Lasker at Julius Rosenwald’s home. In The Chicago Tribune, ‘Youthful chess champion defeated’, 1 April 1921. Courtesy of Library of Congress.