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Pal Benko
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Hungarian-American chess player
OverviewAI-generated
Pal Benko was a chess player, chess composer and author born in Amiens on 15 July 1928, and held citizenship of both Hungary and the United States. He competed in the 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th Chess Olympiads, reached an Elo rating of 2530, and held the titles of Grandmaster, International Master, and International Master for chess compositions. He was a member of the World Chess Hall of Fame.
Benko wrote seven works, including Basic Chess Endings and Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory. He spoke Hungarian and English, and died on 26 August 2019 in Budapest.
Synthesized by Vinony from 27 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, 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
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pal+Benko">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,706x
- 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 10,999x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,264x
- 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 6,195x
- 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 6,176x
via Crossref · CC0
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
Show 7 more facts
- 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
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