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Pal Benko
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Hungarian-American chess player
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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,815x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,084x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,093x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,092x
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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
- Image
- Pal Benko 1964.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pál Benkő
- date of birth
- 1928-07-15
- Elo rating
- 2408
- 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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Article
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.
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1928 births2019 deaths20th-century American chess players20th-century Hungarian chess playersAmerican chess writersAmerican instructional writersAmerican male non-fiction writersChess composersChess GrandmastersChess theoreticiansHungarian emigrants to the United StatesHungarian refugeesSportspeople from Amiens