Tbilisi, December 1978. The 46th USSR Championship final. In conversation, ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal and, at the chessboard, the 15-year-old debutant, and future World Champion Garry Kasparov.
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“The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions.”
🔸 Alexander Alekhine
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Portorož, Yugoslavia, 27th August 1958. In the 13th round of the FIDE Interzonal tournament, Soviet GM Tigran Petrosian faces the 15-year-old US Champion Bobby Fischer. On the left, the Yugoslav GM Svetozar Gligorić looks on.
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Moscow, 28th March 1974. The 10-year-old Garry Kasparov is pictured on his way to defeating Soviet grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, in a simultaneous display with clocks given by the latter.
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After round 1 at Tata Steel in Wijk aan Zee, Anand beat Van Foreest and Nepomniachtchi beat Giri. All other games were drawn. The average rating for the event is 2753.
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🔸 Pal Benko
🔸 American-Hungarian chess grandmaster
🔸 Chess author
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🔸 Pal Benko
🔸 American-Hungarian chess grandmaster
🔸 Chess author
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
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✴️ About Pal Benko
🔸 Pal Benko
🔸 American-Hungarian chess grandmaster
🔸 Chess author
📚 Pal Benko is a Hungarian–American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.
Benko finished in first place (or tied for first place) in eight U.S. Open Chess Championships, a record. His titles were: 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1975. He won the 1964 Canadian Open Chess Championship. He represented Hungary at the 1957 Student Olympiad in Reykjavík on board one, scoring 7½/12, and Hungary was fourth as a team. He had earlier played for the national Hungarian team at the Moscow 1956 Olympiad, on board three, scoring 10/15, and helping Hungary to team bronze. He moved to the United States, but it was not until 1962 that he appeared on the U.S. team. He would wind up on six teams in a row.
🔹 Born: July 15, 1928 (age 90 years), Amiens, France
🔹 Peak rating: 2530 (July 1973)
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1958)
🔹 FIDE rating: 2408
🔹 Books: The Benko gambit, Chess endgame lessons, Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory
🔹 Nationality: Hungarian, American
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA @ CHESSGAMES.COM
♦️ A memorable game by Benko👇
▪️ Pal Benko vs Robert James Fischer
▪️ Curacao Candidates (1962), Willemstad CUW, rd 1, May-02
▪️ Pirc Defense: General (B07)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Pal Benko
🔸 American-Hungarian chess grandmaster
🔸 Chess author
📚 Pal Benko is a Hungarian–American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.
Benko finished in first place (or tied for first place) in eight U.S. Open Chess Championships, a record. His titles were: 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1975. He won the 1964 Canadian Open Chess Championship. He represented Hungary at the 1957 Student Olympiad in Reykjavík on board one, scoring 7½/12, and Hungary was fourth as a team. He had earlier played for the national Hungarian team at the Moscow 1956 Olympiad, on board three, scoring 10/15, and helping Hungary to team bronze. He moved to the United States, but it was not until 1962 that he appeared on the U.S. team. He would wind up on six teams in a row.
🔹 Born: July 15, 1928 (age 90 years), Amiens, France
🔹 Peak rating: 2530 (July 1973)
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1958)
🔹 FIDE rating: 2408
🔹 Books: The Benko gambit, Chess endgame lessons, Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory
🔹 Nationality: Hungarian, American
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA @ CHESSGAMES.COM
♦️ A memorable game by Benko👇
▪️ Pal Benko vs Robert James Fischer
▪️ Curacao Candidates (1962), Willemstad CUW, rd 1, May-02
▪️ Pirc Defense: General (B07)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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@Benko-Fischer 1962.pgn
769 B
▪️ Pal Benko - Robert James Fischer, Curacao Candidates (1962)
▪️ PGN format
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▪️ PGN format
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Anish Giri wins a great game playing defense against Vladimir Kramnik. 🛡
He's on 50% after two dramatic games where Black was the victor.
He's on 50% after two dramatic games where Black was the victor.