On Sep 25, 5:56 am, "Chess One" wrote:

Note the date above, and also this one:

"in 1995, at age 81, he finished sixth in the U. S. Open."


The official crosstable shows he tied for 6th through 12th,
which is not quite the same as "finishing sixth". It was a
very good tourney for GM Denker, as he went from USCF
2322 all the way up to 2375! Note that (apart from Alex
Yermolinsky) this event was not exactly packed with
grandmasters; so where the heck were they? Was the
U.S. Closed championship huge that year? In any case,
at 81 years old, he smacked around several masters; this
reminds me of Jack Palance falling to the stage floor and
doing one-armed pushups at the Academy Awards. (Big
deal; let's see him do just *one* with no arms!)


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