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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...
Last week it ended. Mikhail Botvinnik, 32, had retained the title which he won in 1941 when the Soviet national chess championship was last staged...
...crowd got its biggest thrill in the early rounds when Botvinnik, playing indifferently, lost to a 20-year-old flash named David Bronstein, a Stalingrad railroad worker playing in his first national contest. But blondish, bespectacled Botvinnik was too self-assured to be ruffled. He went on to retain his title with 12½ points out of a possible...
Hemmed in by the war to a field which he clearly dominates, Grand Master Botvinnik is itching to get back into international competition. Last week he hailed with delight a U.S. Chess Review proposal for a radio match between the ten best U.S. chessmen and Russia's best ten. Said the Grand Master: "I think it will . . . strengthen the cultural relations between the United Nations...