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Alexander Alekhine vs Francisco Benko
Simul (1928) (exhibition), Berlin GER
Alekhine Defense: Scandinavian Variation (B02)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Nov-21-09  vonKrolock: In the Baden-Baden Tournament form 1925, three years before this game, the same variation was tested with good result for black Yates vs Colle, 1925
Mar-08-20  Pyrandus: GG! (Good Game)
Sep-27-24
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  MissScarlett: Wikipedia on Benko: < In 1928 and 1929, he drew simultaneous games with Alexander Alekhine in Berlin.> The cited source <Chessville en Español – Nuestro Círculo #155> is a defunct link.

This game isn't in the Skinner & Verhoeven volume, but it does list a Berlin simul in 1928 on December 18th, in which Alekhine scored +24 -0 =6. For 1929, there's only an alternating simul with Bogolyubow, played on October 23rd during their world championship match.

Sep-28-24  zanzibar: Wayback is your friend...

<Although between 1928 and 1929 Benko had achieved his greatest feat alongside his favourite pastime, with two simultaneous draws against the then world chess champion, Alexander Alekhine, three decades later, in 1960, in Argentina, once again in front of a chessboard he broke out into the brightest smile: he beat Bobby Fischer in a game of ping-pong chess.>

https://web.archive.org/web/2012030...

I'm not sure if <ping pong chess> is a "real thing", but here's one take on it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maY...

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