"Jud McCranie" wrote in message
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Is this true:
"Kashdan would have been U.S. champion in 1942, but lost
out to Reshevsky when the TD scored Reshevsky's time-forfeit loss to
Denker as a win instead."
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Replace you know what by j to email

"Toward the end of the time control, the maddest time scramble
in which I have ever participated, took place. In the excitement,
the Tournament Director forfeited me by mistake. On being
informed of his error, he replied tartly, "Does Kenesaw Mountain
Landis ever reverse himself?!" So my hopes of the title went
glimmering.

I drew two morals from this outcome. One is the realization
that important tournaments should be fully staffed, so that
officials are not handicapped in the performance of their duties.
Second was a determination to avoid time trouble in the
future. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

/Arnold Denker, My Best Games 1929-1976, p 121 Dover.

I used to write with Arnold a bit, or rather, he usually initiated the
conversation and write to me, sometimes very mysteriously!

He was not in any way elliptical on the subject of TD's control of the game,
and he would have thought, IMO, some recent decisions by rule makers to
empower TDs, and TDs who do not act on their existing responsibility but
refer decisions to committees [!] not in the best interests of the game.

These opinions were by no means sour-grapes, and as you can read above, he
accepted the result without undue fuss, especially in this instance it cost
him the US Championship. He concludes at the end of the game score with
another note:-

"In this easily drawn position (Black need only continue to check
at Kt6, Kt7 and Kt8) I was forfeited because the tournament
director was under the impression that I had over-stepped the
time limit. A very unsatisfactory conclusion from my point of view!

/ ibidem

Phil Innes

Phil Innes