If you must meet Arnold Denker
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On Sep 25, 1:18 pm, Sanny wrote:
Denker,A - Feit,H
New York Interscholastic Championship, 1929
1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 b6 4.Bg2 Bb7 5.0-0 Nf6 6.c4 Be7 7.Nc3 d6 8.d5 e5
9.Ng5
Bc8 10.e4 0-0 11.f4 exf4 12.Bxf4 fxe4 13.Ncxe4 Nxe4 [diagram] 14.Bxe4
Bxg5
15.Qh5 Rxf4 16.Qxh7+ Kf7 17.Bg6+ Kf6 18.Rxf4+ Bxf4 19.Qh4+ Bg5 20.Qe4
Be3+
21.Kh1 Bh6 22.Rf1+ Kg5 23.Bh7 1-0
I loved reading whole story. And also the game was very nice. Imagine,
he played such a good game in 1929. When there was no computer to
practise.
In the game to which you refer, the young Mr. Denker
missed an obvious *mate-in-one* by 23.h4++.
Good catch, but actually the errata was caught beforehand, and will be
changed to the correct Black's 21st move which is 21. ...
Bh3. Hence the diagram also needs correction from 21 forward. //PI
To me,
this brings into serious question the level of understanding
behind the grandmasterly-looking opening moves; in fact,
I wonder if this Queen's Indian style setup was a common
way of playing the Dutch Defense way back then. His
opponent, a young Mr. Feit, also missed several better
defensive tries. The move 7. ...d6 is where Black went
astray; that move can be and is played in what we now
call the Lenningrad Dutch -- with no Queenside
fianchetto, of course.
I think it must be the aggressive, attacking style
which pleases the eye here; to me, it looks like White
was pursuing the opponent's Queen (not his King), up
until the final move, and that Black was defending the
wrong monarch, but to no avail.
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