Word: denker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's Botvinnik promptly outmaneuvered Denker in 25 lightning-quick moves. All Russians played a wide-open game that left the orthodox Americans staring blankly at their boards. It was not only in politics that the Russians were good chess players...
...best of Russia's ten best chess-masters engaged in the four-day frolic was Mikhail Botvinnik, an engineer whose double-thick spectacles made him look like the right man for the No. 1 board. Topping the U.S. big ten was Arnold Denker, who was a welterweight, flunked plane geometry, looked as much like a deep thinker as most 200-lb. fullbacks. Cracked Champion Denker before he dug in, by remote control,against Champion Botvinnik: "I've just got to beat him . . . my dentist's name also happens to be Botvinnik...