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Arnold Denker vs Robert Willman
Olympic Selection Tournament (1933), New York, NY USA, rd 8, May-13
Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Variation (D52)  ·  1/2-1/2

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May-01-16
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  Phony Benoni: In <American Chess Bulletin>, May/June 1933, p. 92, this games end with <42.Rxe8+>. Does anyone have confirmation of this one way or the other?
May-02-16  Retireborn: <Phony> Chessbase Big 2002 ends on 41...Ke7.

In such cases I usually just assume that the extra move was a sealed move which didn't necessarily get actually played on the board, but who knows.

May-02-16
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  Phony Benoni: <Retireborn> That's usually a good assumption, but it didn't seem likely in this case because the primary time control was 50 moves in two hours. Games were not adjourned before that point.

I looked a bit at this tournament, which was held to qualify three members of the United States team for the 1933 International Team Tournament. All the games can be found online, but there are numerous differences between the databases and the original magazine / newspaper publications.

May-02-16  Retireborn: <Phony> Thanks, interesting. Absent a tournament book or a reference in Denker's own book(s) I would certainly be inclined to trust the American Chess Bulletin over databases.

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