Sammy Reshevsky
Our next Club Tournament starting in happening this Monday, July 28. It is the Quick Tournament! Game time limit is 15 minutes with NO delay or increment!
The tournament will play two rounds a night,
starting around 6:30pm. The tournament will go 4 rounds. This is an exciting
event and one of the favorites at the Club.
Hope to see you there for this fun and FREE
event!
Now lets talk chess prodgies shall we?
Meet the megabrats who make headlines but
embarrassing very good to great chess players at very young ages.
In 1987 an article in The Times featured
a ten-year old Adragon Eastwood DeMello (distantly related to Clint Eastwood by
the way). Adragon had ‘mastered’ chess at two and a half, but we are told abandoned
chess for mathematics and nuclear physics. There are no games by this prodigy
so we have only this article to go by. But, if true, he would be the youngest.
The youngest that is documented – and well documented
I might add is Jose Raul Capablanca. He learned chess at the age of four, not
be being taught, but simply by watching his father and uncle play. When he snickered
at a move his uncle made, young Jose was instantly forced to challenge his
uncle. Jose beat him handily.
His father then took the young boy to the
Havana Chess Club where Jose gave queen odds to a senior member there and won
in 38 moves!
The next boy wonder would be the American Sammy
Reshevsky. In the early 1920’s he was giving simultaneous exhibitions throughout
the United States and Europe at the ages of six thru eleven! At the age of ten
Sammy beat David Janowsky, who had challenged for the Chess World Championship
twelve years earlier!
For the strongest twelve year old, we have to
go back to the 1850’s and the great American Paul Morphy. At that age, Paul
beat Johann Lowenthal in a match 2-0-1 where Paul gave his opponent a draw in
the last game when his opponent made an obvious blunder.
The strongest 15-year old was yet another
American you may have heard of. His name is Bobby Fischer. He became a World
Championship contender at that age, and had won the “game of the century” a year
earlier.
The strongest 16 year old is another American,
Gata Kamsky. Immigrating from Russia at 15, his rating zoomed to number 5 in
the world at age 16.
The strongest teenager of all time at nineteen
was Garry Kasparov, the future World Champion with the longest reign in history.
The Livingston County Chess
Club meets every Monday night between
4pm thru 10pm
at the Buffalo Wild Wings in
the Green Oak Mall in Brighton, MI.
Stop in for some friendly chess, good food
and 'refreshments'.
Everyone of all ages and playing strength are
welcome to attend. And free lessons to all beginners!
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