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Jul-20-08
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| Phony Benoni: <ravel5184: Why is the "Benko Gambit" called what it is? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...; I think these links show why it's called the Benko Gambit. The first lists all Benko Gambits in the database; out of nearly 3000, only about 20 were played before Benko took up the opening. The second links shows the database has only 11 Benko Gambits played by Benko. But if you look at Benko's games after he began to play the gambit, you find that they were almost exclusively 1.e4 or 1.c4 openings. Few people gave him a chance to play the gambit. |
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Aug-05-08
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| vonKrolock: greetings Pal, and also <boldog sz�let�snapot> !! |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| RookFile: <ravel5184: Why is the "Benko Gambit" called what it is? > Oh dear. I remember Chess Life articles, where Benko was practically the only guy talking about this variation. Now it's all the rage, of course. |
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Aug-05-08
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| keypusher: <Ravel 5184>
From an old <acirce> post re the alternate name, the Volga Gambit: <By the way where does the name “Volga Gambit” come from? In the second edition of the magazine “Schachmaty in USSR” 1946, there was an article by B. Argunow from Kuybyschew at the Volga river on the gambit continuation 3...b5!?. That's why the term “Volga Gambit” was suggested and found its way into Russian chess literature. This name was taken over by many countries in Europe. At the end of the sixties this idea was also promoted Pal Benko, the Hungarian grandmaster living in the USA, who provided many new suggestions. This is the reason why in chess literature, particularly in the English speaking countries, one can also find the term “Benko Gambit”.> http://www.chesscentral.com/softwar... See also #3957 (scroll down) in Chess Notes suggesting the Swedes helped develop in in the 1920s. http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
A number of openings have different names in the East than the West. |
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Aug-27-08
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| whiteshark: 'Quote of the Day' as <Stonehenge> posted on Sep-18-07. Nuttin to add. :D |
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Aug-27-08
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| brankat: <whiteshark> Check my forum for a bit of a discussion on Benko's quote :-) |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| myschkin: . . .
Photos:
http://www.chessville.com/images/Be...
http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/... http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/... http://www.friisland.de/Rockblog/wp... |
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Nov-24-08
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| talisman: well there's a nice tal photo.we could use it on the tal page.avatar too. |
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| Apr-03-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: Sorry, Pal! |
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Jun-14-09
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| vonKrolock: Benkö: <"My favorite letter-problem memory took place on Max Euwe seventy-seventh birthday in Brazil. The highlight of the party was a fancy cake that was topped with two frosting chessboards. The positions on the chessboards, made of chocolate pieces, featured Euwe's monogram (an "M-problem" and an "E-problem") in the form of two letter problems. The crowd loved the effect, but Euwe was put on the spot when my conditions were announced: he had to solve both problems before anyone could eat the cake. Max solved the "M" problem very quickly but, for whatever reason, he got stuck on the "E" problem which consists of two Queen sacrifices. After a while, I had to whisper the solutions so that he could avoid embarassment. Then we all devoured the cake! Can you solve them before the candles go out?!"> This passage from Benkö & Silman's <"Pal Benko: My Life, Games and Compositions"> is quoted (with the diagrams of both 'M' and 'E' letters) in G. K. Ware's article http://main.uschess.org/content/vie... |
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Jul-15-09
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| brankat: Happy Birthday GM Benko! |
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| Jul-15-09 |
| arman07: Happy brthday |
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| Jul-15-09 |
| Katu: I once seen him in 2008 when he performed a live analysis of his win against Bobby Fischer. He did not need a scoresheet even though it was an (approx.) 50 year old game! |
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Jul-15-09
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| Peligroso Patzer: <Katu: I once seen him in 2008 when he performed a live analysis of his win against Bobby Fischer. He did not need a scoresheet even though it was an (approx.) 50 year old game!> I suspect he had been over that game a few times in the interval. |
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Jul-15-09
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| wordfunph: Happy Birthday to one of the colorful GMs in the history of chess...GM Pal Benko! |
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Jul-15-09
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| vonKrolock: He can perform some of his famous wins, then show some unique task in composition -all this from memory- and still crush you in a pair of friendly blitz games... (quoting myself from another cg.com post):
<In the past Loyd himself had developed sometimes schemes already pioneered by others (like with the so called Excelsior) but always with a decisive increment in idea and (or) in form. With the <Organ Pipes>, it's a scheme that arrived to be showed in various contexts by composers from time to time, but during some decades the <'double frontal Organ Pipes'> was considered something impossible to reach in a two-mover - This until Pal Benko came with: Pál Benkö
"Magyar Sakkélet" 1974
1th Prize
click for larger view
White to play and mate in two #2
When he showed us this one, his comment was: <<"They> said before that this was impossible... what they overlooked, was the discovered mate here, look..." (taking the e5 pawn with one hand, and the d3 pawn with the other, and directing both to e4) - It's evident whom with 'THEY' he meant - the <carefull critics>, as Loyd would say :)> I got the lasting impression that he was so proud of such an achievement in the Problem field, as he was of his wins over the board a tempo: <Feliz Aniversário!!> |
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| Jul-15-09 |
| WhiteRook48: happy 81st birthday! |
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Jul-15-09
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| fm avari viraf: I'm a great fan of Pal Benko. His innovative Benko Gambit was a rage one time & I won many many games with it. Happy Birthday my daer old Pal & May God Shower His Divine Blessings Upon You! It's party to-night. |
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| Aug-05-09 |
| laskereshevsky: I saw him same days ago, he looks much younger then 81..... |
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Aug-05-09
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| HeMateMe: Didn't Fischer win an interesting game against Benko in a US championship, where he kept the f file blocked by sacking a Bishop, because there was an unpreventable mate on the long diagonal? The games been analysed and reprinted many times. I think it was Benko, not sure. |
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| Aug-06-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: Fischer and Benko actually had a lot of interesting games. Benko has nothing to be ashamed of, not many can say that they beat Fischer in even 1 game of chess, let alone 3. |
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| Aug-06-09 |
| laskereshevsky: <HeMateMe> I think U r reffering to this game: Fischer vs Benko, 1963
Only, Fischer offered the sacrifice of the  , and not of the  threating a mate in h7. Diagram after the black move 18... xd4
click for larger view19.f6!
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Aug-20-09
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| Benzol: I've just got hold of "Pal Benko : My Life, Games and Compositions". In it it was great to see photos from Curacao 1962 when Fischer visited Tal in hospital. Fischer is dressed in a suit and Tal is naturally dressed in pyjamas. There is a chess set on the bed on which Tal is laying and it looks like they may have played or analysed together.
Seeing these shots it's sad to think they're both gone now. |
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Aug-20-09
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| HeMateMe: In one account of the visit, supposedly Fischer had to 'sneak' the chess set in, as Tal was not supposed to encounter any stress while mending. |
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Sep-10-09
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| Caissanist: Chessgames.com only has a small fraction of Benko's tournament games, probably no more than 25%. During the sixties and seventies, he played mostly in open swiss tournaments in the USA--I would imagine that he played at least 100 games a year in those events, including a great many Benko Gambits. Practically none of those games are in this database. |
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