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Pal Benko
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Hungarian-American chess player
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Pal Benko, born Pál Benkő in Amiens in 1928, was a Hungarian and American chess player, composer, and author. He competed for both Hungary and the United States in the 12th, 15th, 16th, and 17th Chess Olympiads. Benko held the titles of Grandmaster, International Master, and International Master for chess compositions, with an Elo rating of 2530. He was a member of the World Chess Hall of Fame.
As an author, Benko wrote seven works, including *Basic chess endings*, *Ganar al ajedrez con psicología*, *Chess endgame lessons*, *Pal Benko*, and *Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory*. He spoke Hungarian and English. He died in Budapest on August 26, 2019.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Basic chess endings
- Ganar al ajedrez con psicología
- Chess endgame lessons
- Pal Benko
- Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11
- Total plays
- 11
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Key facts
- Born
- Pal Charles Benko , ( 1928-07-15 ) July 15, 1928, Amiens , France
- Died
- August 25, 2019 (2019-08-25) (aged 91) , Budapest , Hungary
- Country
- Hungary (before 1962) United States (from 1962)
- Title
- Grandmaster (1958)
- Peak rating
- 2530 (July 1973)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pál
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Amiens
- Place of death
- Budapest
- Occupation
- chess composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 20th Chess Olympiad
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Pal Benko 1964.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pál Benkő
- date of birth
- 1928-07-15
- Elo rating
- 2408
- title of chess person
- International Master
- member of
- World Chess Hall of Fame
- date of death
- 2019-08-25
- name in native language
- Benkő Pál
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Pal Benko, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Pal Charles Benko (Hungarian: Benkő Pál; July 15, 1928 – August 25, 2019) was a Hungarian and American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pal Benko” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.