Albert Pinkus
Number of games in database: 116
Years covered: 1924 to 1955
Overall record: +50 -30 =34 (58.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Ruy Lopez (17)      C83 C91 C88 C78 C86  Ruy Lopez, Closed (9)      C91 C88 C86 C89 C84  French Defense (6)      C07 C13 C12 C10  Sicilian (5)      B58 B20 B72 B95 B93  French (4)      C13 C12 C10  Ruy Lopez, Open (4)      C83 C82	With the Black pieces:  Orthodox Defense (8)      D61 D51 D63 D55 D52  Grunfeld (7)      D82 D90 D85 D70 D73  Ruy Lopez (7)      C86 C83 C77 C84  Queen's Gambit Declined (6)      D38 D37 D31  Nimzo Indian (5)      E33 E49 E25 E51  Giuoco Piano (4)      C54 C53

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Pinkus vs Santasiere, 1926 1-0
   Pinkus vs Lilienthal, 1945 1/2-1/2
   Santasiere vs Pinkus, 1946 1/2-1/2
   Lilienthal vs Pinkus, 1945 1/2-1/2

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   US Open 1939, New York = 40th ACF Congress by Phony Benoni
   1944 US championship by crawfb5
   US Open 1950, Detroit by Phony Benoni

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ALBERT PINKUS (born Mar-20-1903, died Feb-04-1984) United States of America [what is this?] Albert Sidney Pinkus was Champion of both the Manhattan (1941, 1945) and Marshall Chess Clubs, and played in the U.S. Championship five times. He became a stock broker in 1939. Younger brother of Milton Pinkus. Wikipedia article: Albert Pinkus

page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 116  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Pinkus vs H Liebenstein   1-0 46 1924 New York-ch Stuyvesant CC C66 Ruy Lopez 2. M Wilenkin vs Pinkus   1-0 36 1924 New York-ch Stuyvesant CC C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 3. Pinkus vs Kupchik   1-0 33 1924 New York-ch Rice CC C41 Philidor Defense 4. Marshall vs Pinkus 0-1 64 1924 Dimock theme C54 Giuoco Piano 5. Santasiere vs Pinkus   0-1 24 1925 Dimock Theme Tournament C54 Giuoco Piano 6. Pinkus vs Santasiere 1-0 30 1926 Dimock theme B20 Sicilian 7. Pinkus vs Marshall 0-1 22 1926 Dimock theme C51 Evans Gambit 8. Pinkus vs Kupchik   0-1 60 1928 Manhattan Chess Club-ch E17 Queen's Indian 9. Kupchik vs Pinkus   1-0 44 1928 Manhattan Chess Club-ch D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 10. Pinkus vs Kashdan 1-0 36 1928 Manhattan CC Ch E00 Queen's Pawn Game 11. Alekhine vs Pinkus   0-1 57 1929 New York sim C86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack 12. Kupchik vs Pinkus   0-1 39 1930 Manhattan Chess Club-ch C28 Vienna Game 13. Pinkus vs Konigsburg 1-0 26 1934 Casual Game C70 Ruy Lopez 14. C Jaffe vs Pinkus   0-1 31 1939 USA Ch D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 15. C Pilnick vs Pinkus 0-1 23 1939 USA-ch prel A03 Bird's Opening 16. Pinkus vs Reshevsky ½-½ 40 1939 ACF-ch C88 Ruy Lopez 17. Santasiere vs Pinkus 1-0 45 1939 New York A04 Reti Opening 18. W Adams vs Pinkus   0-1 40 1939 USA-ch B15 Caro-Kann 19. Fine vs Pinkus   1-0 33 1939 USA-ch D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 20. Pinkus vs M Green   1-0 58 1939 USA-ch B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6 21. O Ulvestad vs Pinkus   0-1 38 1939 USA-ch D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 22. G Hellman vs Pinkus   0-1 40 1939 USA-ch C53 Giuoco Piano 23. Pinkus vs F Reinfeld   ½-½ 41 1940 USA Ch C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd 24. Reshevsky vs Pinkus 1-0 34 1940 New York D82 Grunfeld, 4.Bf4 25. Pinkus vs D Polland   ½-½ 29 1940 USA Ch C78 Ruy Lopez  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 116

Mar-13-04    sleepkid: ...the Indiana Jones of chess... Apr-04-07    chancho: I remember when they wrote about Albert Pinkus in Chess Life back in the 90's. He lived an interesting life it seems. Apr-04-07    Resignation Trap: For one thing, he was a collector of botanical specimens from South America. Here's a plant named for him, Vochysia pinkusii: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/common/ima... . Apr-04-07    Resignation Trap: I'd be thrilled just to have a fungus named after me! Mar-20-11    wordfunph: anecdotes in memory of Albert Pinkus.. In 1984, Al Pinkus died from Alzheimer's disease at Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn. His son Larry said that the disease ground him down inexorably and that he eventually had difficulty remembering to punch his chess clock after moving. *** Robert Byrne remembered watching a fascinating combat between the swashbuckling attacker Arnold Denker and defiant defender Albert Pinkus. After Arnold had got off one of his scintillating pawn sacrifices, Albert snatched it, wrote down "Show me" on his scoresheet, and got up from the table. When he returned to make his move, he was jolted to find the reply in the margin, "Don't worry. I will!" in Denker's inimitable hand. That day he did, too. i forgot where i lifted these stories, maybe from Chess Life or other source. Mar-20-11    Phony Benoni: <wordfunph> That story is from Denker himself. It's from his autobiographical collection "If You Must Play Chess", describing the game Denker vs Pinkus, 1946. I'll put the exact quote on the game page. Mar-20-11    Caissanist: Pinkus is the subject of an enjoyable chapter of Arnold Denker's memoir "The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories", which includes the anecdotes <wordfunph> mentions. Mar-20-11    wordfunph: <Phony Benoni> <Caissanist> thanks for the correction. Mar-20-12    brankat: Mr.Pinkus did have some good results against very strong players. R.I.P. Mr.Pinkus.

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