Not so, according to The Engine, after an hour's analysis. The position is precisely equal. And Black has a range of sequences to maintain equality - it's not as if there's only one thin saving line.

In 2010 you were only a bit disappointed:

Marshall vs Bogoljubov, 1924 (kibitz #26)

In 1924 some people were <really> upset:

<From a letter contributed by Leonard B. Meyer to Chess Review, June 1949, page 161, regarding the conclusion of the New York, 1924 tournament: ‘…local chess-players were divided into Capablanca, Marshall and Réti camps, and I was in the center as a member of the brilliancy prize committee. I was strongly in favor of giving the first prize to Réti for his game against Bogoljubow. The other judges were Hermann Helms and Norbert Lederer, and it was common knowledge that originally the committeemen did not see eye to eye. However, on the night before the dinner at which the awards were to be made, the committee finally unanimously selected this game for first prize. The next day a bomb burst. There had been a leak, and Herbert R. Limburg, president of the congress, was in a dither. He had received a letter from John Barry, objecting to the committee’s decision. The letter also included a vitriolic attack against me. It began about as follows: “It has come to my knowledge that one Meyer, who is either a knave or a moron, has decided to give the brilliancy prize to Réti”. The balance of the letter, besides discussing patriotism, included a system for deciding prizes, with points for various types of sacrifices, all of which added up to first prize for Marshall for his game with Bogoljubow. At a hastily called meeting of the tournament committee, the decision of the brilliancy prize committee was upheld. >

Apparently Dr. Tartakower joined Alekhine on the side of injustice:

<In 1930, I met Dr Tartakower in Paris. He told me that, in his opinion, when all other details of the tournament are forgotten, the Réti- Bogoljubow game will be remembered as one of the six greatest games ever played. …It is like judging any other work of art: the experts are bound to disagree. Just for the record, in later years, Barry apologized, and we buried the hatchet.’ (From Edward Winter, Chess Notes, 2538)>

" it furnishes the most striking proof that Black’s entire arrangement of his game was faulty"

I think it encourages thoroughness. The variation Alekhine gives seems incredible accurate too:

" For the simple continuation 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.Nxe5 Bxe5 13.Bxe5 Rxe5 14.Nc4 Re8 15.Ne3 Be6 16.Qd4"

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...was apparently printed on 100's of t-shirts and were on sale at a tournament in Florida in 2002. The position is correct, so are the names and the place...but...spot the error.

We can forgive the missing accent, it is rarely used but 'price' for 'prize' had me chuckling all day. It's something I would have done.

I recall a number of years ago being sent the first copy of a magazine it was titled in a huge font 'Northumberland Chess' or that is what it was meant to be called. After a print run of about 50 someone spotted it had been called; 'Northumerland Chess.'

Scotland's landmark was not a picture of Edinburgh and it's 'iconic' Castle but Hohenzollern Castle in Germany.