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    Pal Charles Benko (Hungarian: Benkő Pál; July 15, 1928 – August 25, 2019) was a Hungarian and American chess player, author, and composer of endgame studies...
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  • Hungarian-American grandmaster Pal Benko, who provided many new suggestions and published his book The Benko Gambit in 1974. The name Benko Gambit stuck and is particularly...
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    work to participate. Fischer and Bisguier won the first two spots, and Pal Benko was nominated to fill the final position. Daniel Yanofsky, a former Canadian...
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  • Baden-Baden in 1925, with mixed results. 1.g3 received renewed attention after Pal Benko used it to defeat Bobby Fischer and Mikhail Tal in the 1962 Candidates...
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    Fischer v. Spassky. Vintage. ISBN 978-0-394-71830-9. Benko, Pal; Silman, Jeremy (2003). Pal Benko: My Life, Games and Compositions. Siles Press. ISBN 978-1-890085-08-7...
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    versus three minor piece endings "are theoretically drawn." Grandmaster Pal Benko, an authority on the endgame and like Fine a world-class player at his...
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  • Look up benko in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Benko, Benkó (pron. [benko]) or Benkö, Benkő (pron. [benkoe]) may refer to: Filip Benko (born 1986)...
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  • expert Poe McClinton, still a park regular, is seen throughout the film. Pal Benko was supposed to be in the film but his part was cut out. Waitzkin's real...
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    Petrosian 12½ (though Petrosian had the bye in the last round); (4th) Benko 12; (5th-6th) Fischer, Bronstein 11½; (7th-10th) Olafsson, Averbakh, Szabo...
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    effect on Spassky". Pal Benko and Burt Hochberg, Winning with Chess Psychology, David McKay, 1991, p. 87, ISBN 0-8129-1866-5; Benko and Hochberg also quote...
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