OCTOGENARIAN DENKER

Anyway, 2375 is not too bad at age 81! My gosh! That's not too bad at
all.

Phil Innes

Speaking of Arnold's result in the 1995 U.S.
Open, I gave his win (which is listed as a draw in my
CL article) over Emmanuel Perez, rated 2388 at the
time. Perez as Black grabbed the b-pawn, and we know
the rest. Arnold made it look so easy, which we know
it was not. I introduced that game with this comment:
"A strong young master learned the octogenarians,
bald and benevolent, bite."

Yours, Larry Parr

Chess One wrote:
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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".

When I raised the same issue about a certain bloke's finish at Nottingham, I
was assured that the official way of recording these things in the US these
days, is to say 6th.

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

My daughter aged 16 was crew on a big wooden boat up there on Erie, a lake
boat built to fight the Brits, and a couple of guests showed up, the Gov of
PA, plus a 'star'. Guests had to put on life jackets, and the star couldn't
quite figure his out, so #1 daughter went over and tied it for him, but he
tried to 'help'. "Put your f*** hands down, man!" she said to Jack Palance.
Which he did, quiet as a lamb. She had no idea who he was.

Anyway, 2375 is not too bad at age 81! My gosh! That's not too bad at all.

Phil Innes

doing one-armed pushups at the Academy Awards. (Big
deal; let's see him do just *one* with no arms!)


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