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Nine Year Old Polish Chess Wizard Challenges Champions of the Three Political Parties of Congress

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Date

1922-04-10

Maker

National Photo Company

Dimensions

6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (16.5 × 21.6 cm)

Accession Number

PA2016.03.0018

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Nine-year-old chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky squared off against the three best players in Congress, James Collier, Roy Fitzgerald, and Meyer London, in 1922. “The congressmen wrinkled their foreheads and used all their skill trying to defeat the boy,” the Christian Science Monitor reported, but Reshevsky won all three simultaneous games in 50 minutes. Afterward, he played a raucous ballgame with a clerk in a House Office Building hallway.

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