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| Aug-27-19 | | Joshka: Bobby was always enamored with Benko. He looked up to him, liked his style...the way he handled women, his fashion for clothes, all around tough guy...he just had a tremendous respect for the man. Benko I'm sure always let Bobby know when he was out of line that's for sure. |
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| Aug-28-19 | | parisattack: Rest well, Benko Pal! Your games and especially your compositions will continue to bring joy and instruction to many. |
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| Aug-28-19 | | morfishine: Benko was a great chess player who loved the game, who loved his chosen profession, who loved everything about chess and life What more could one want or aspire to do? |
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Aug-28-19
 | | MissScarlett: <the way he handled women> Benko always portrayed himself as a player - I always took it with a pinch of salt. |
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| Aug-28-19 | | ewan14: Never mind his endgame compositions he popularised the dreaded ( for me at least ) Benko Gambit. RIP |
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Aug-28-19
 | | paulalbert: Sadly few of the GMs remain from Pal Benko's chess era. I had the privilege of meeting many of them. Pal Benko I had the opportunity to meet several times at NY area tournaments, but particularly at Danny Kopec's summer chess camp where he was the GM instructor at the Lawrenceville School in NJ in 2002. I liked Pal Benko's endgame columns and was fascinated by his expertise on endgame studies. I have his highly instructive, self published endgame book. May he rest in peace. |
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| Aug-29-19 | | Chessmusings: Benko’s Greatest Sacrifice: https://chessmusings.wordpress.com/... |
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| Sep-06-19 | | mckmac: <"The End of the Golden Era of Chess" The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.> https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/art... |
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| Sep-06-19 | | Granny O Doul: I'll admit I'm always chuffed when chess makes the "culture" section of anything. The late William Lombardy though lamented the long-ago migration of the New York Times chess column (RIP) from "sports" to "arts & leisure", which he thought made the game seem esoteric and artsy-fartsy. |
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Sep-21-19
 | | wwall: I updated Benko's bio at http://www.billwallchess.com/articl... I tried to add as much information as I can without taking away anything from Benko & Silman's book on Benko and his life. Very good book. |
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| Oct-26-19 | | Caissanist: Jeremy Silman wrote a two-part obituary of Benko for chess.com that includes many games annotated by Benko: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/... . |
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| Aug-14-20 | | pazzed paun: An odd player
Much stronger with white than black
Never really get the hang of American style tournaments ..just bled rating points for years |
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Aug-14-20
 | | perfidious: <pazzed paun....Never really get [sic] the hang of American style tournaments ..just bled rating points for years> I call this poster's attention to the following excerpt from the bio above: <....(Benko) won the US Open eight times....> By no means bad for someone who 'never got the hang' of Swiss events. |
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| Aug-14-20 | | pazzed paun: Trivial tournament to play in the us opens ..time pressure addict
Underperformed every u.s. championship he played in. A strong finish at Hastings would have given him invites to good European tournaments |
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Aug-14-20
| | perfidious: <Trivial tournament to play in the us opens....> How many US Opens have you won? More than Benko did? Ten? |
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| Aug-14-20 | | pazzed paun: If you limit yourself to a us open ,you become no better than Walter Browne not finishing in the top half of an Interzonal never making the candidates.
If Nakamura Caruana So had limited themselves to the us open they would have never made FIDE top 60 |
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Aug-14-20
| | perfidious: <pazzed paun>, I'll make this nice and simple so even you understand it: Benko and Browne were professionals playing mostly here in USA (though Benko spent much of each year in Europe). If you bother looking at Browne's tournament record, you will notice that he often played in Europe. Would have become even stronger had he lived in Europe? We shall never know. As for Benko, he was nearly thirty when he escaped the Hungarian Revolution, yet still managed to qualify for consecutive Candidates tournaments. There were few opportunities for professionals in this country pre-Fischer, and even with larger fields and more prize money, everything was fiercely contested. |
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| Aug-15-20 | | pazzed paun: It is funny that you compare Benko play and average opponent in the Interzonal and his severe underperforming at the us
Championship ..it looks like two different players
Fischer was not impressed with Benkos chess ..Fischer’s repotoire is a carbon copy of Boleslavsky whose best games book he praised ..Benko repotoire is not used by Fischer ,and Fischer ignored benkos games |
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Sep-30-20
 | | GrahamClayton: In the 1960's Pal Benko put his name to a range of chess clocks - has anyone used one of these clocks? https://www.worthpoint.com/worthope... |
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Jan-17-22
 | | technical draw: Benko gave up his spot in the interzonal to Fischer. He was a real Pal. |
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| Jan-31-22 | | jerseybob: <pazzed paun: Fischer was not impressed with Benkos chess ..Fischer’s repotoire is a carbon copy of Boleslavsky whose best games book he praised ..Benko repotoire is not used by Fischer ,and Fischer ignored
Benkos games> Fischer's opening repertoire and style were much closer to Boleslavsky than to Benko, that much is true, but about him ignoring Benko's games, I doubt it. Bobby obsessively studied everybody's games. And later in his career he often took a Benko-like approach to playing white. |
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| Jan-31-22 | | SChesshevsky: <Fischer was not impressed with Benkos chess...> Benko was a chess innovator and artist. With lots of ideas that were interesting but probably many that were marginally sound. Fischer mostly had contempt for any chess that might be even slightly unsound no matter how interesting. So the two were like apples and oranges. Think lots of Benko's ideas have aged pretty well. WC Magnus not shy about the Benko Gambit and think Pal's chess compositions still hold up. Have a book that compiles all his old endgame columns from USCF chess magazine. Very useful info in a relatively concise format. Can recommend, though ashamed to admit I haven't studied it nearly enough. |
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Jan-31-22
| | MissScarlett: <Fischer was not impressed with Benkos chess...> Benko's right hander left a mark. |
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| Jun-26-22 | | lonchaney: Chess composer
Published works list
http://www.bstephen.me.uk/meson/com... |
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Sep-25-22
| | MissScarlett: Today's <QOTD>: <Bobby was afraid that if he had defended against Karpov in 1975, the Russians would have had him murdered.> --- Pal Benko I assume this means before the match would take place. Murdering him during the match would surely look highly suspicious. After the match would either be too late or unnecessary. |
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