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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 | | 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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| Sep-10-09 | | 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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| Jan-01-10 | | amadeus: Happy New Year: http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/chr... |
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| Jan-02-10 | | vonKrolock: Yes, Benko have whole alphabets and number's sequence - and every single diagram containing an accomplished Problem, always with some witty point, worth to be set up in real boards, or on the screen according to taste and disposition. The <F>s for instance, corresponding to F. Friedel's initials, a pair of twins, with different solution each one, determined by positioning the whole one column to the right or to the left over the board each time. |
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| Apr-11-10 | | Petrosianic: Here's an eye opener I just discovered in Chess Review, April 1960. Did anybody know that Benko had once won a US title? Or that Fischer had once been defeated for one? <BENKO'S BLITZKRIEG
In the USCF rapid transit championship, featuring a stellar array of performers, Pal Benko marched undefeated through the round robin to make a spectacular 9½-½ score. The only player to draw with Benko was Arthur Bisguier, runner-up with 8-2. Surprisngly, U.S. champion Bobby Fischer was relegated to third place, with 7-3 as a result of losses to Benko, James T. Sherwin and Matthew Green. Dr. Karl Burger and Green tied for fourth with 6-4 each. That Benko can play powerful speed chess without half an effort suggests that he brought at least part of his fantastic time troubles upon himself in the recent world championship challenger's tournament.> |
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| Jul-15-10 | | wordfunph: "I think I blunder more than other Grandmasters. Mostly I specialize in Rook Blunders, which I have done at least a dozen times!" - Pal Benko
happy birthday Pal! |
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| Jul-15-10 | | talisman: happy birthgday, Pal. Thanks for making 1972 possible. |
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| Jul-15-10 | | pjl1015: Happy Birthday Pal! I hope you enjoy your day! I love your book, My Life, Games and Compositions. Just Great! |
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Jul-15-10
 | | Eric Schiller: One of the great treasures of American chess! Many happy returns! |
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| Aug-01-10 | | tentsewang: Its because of Pal Benko that Fischer lived to become a world Champion. Thank you Benko!! He gave up his seat to Fischer so he could move along the ladder to face Spassky and eventually he did. Hail the best of the best!!! |
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Aug-01-10
| | HeMateMe: quid pro quo...of all the people Fischer annoyed, Benko is the only one who got to slug him! |
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| Aug-04-10 | | BISHOP TAL: (tentsewang)Fischer would have become WC no matter what, barring a plane crash or a russian agent giving him radioactive poisening lol,.The only difference is he would of been around longer and played more games cuase,WC was his goal.Still hats of to Benko I read somwhere he got some cash for giving the spot up,he was no match for the russians also I think Benko is the 1 who smacked fischer in the face over a fight over a pillow,Benko took his pillow or somthing not long after Fischer is takin up boxing all for keeping in shape for chess, but if anybody snatches his pillow again and gives him any trouble, POW. |
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Aug-05-10
| | HeMateMe: <BISHOP TAL>
I doubt there would be a Fischer WC match after 1972. The window was open at just the right time, Spassky seemed to be tiring of high pressure chess. If Benko does not give up his place to Fischer for Zonal play? Pal B won't get past Petrosian. Spassky defeats Petrosian in a rematch, then loses in 1975 to Karpov. As paranoid as Fischer is regarding known players, the unknown is even more frightening. There would be no Fischer/Karpov match. Pal Benko is the unsung here who allowed B.F. to get in at just the right time, when Boris Spassky was vulnerable, not playing his best chess. |
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| Aug-06-10 | | BISHOP TAL: Larsen 6-0 Taimanov 6-0 Petrosian about a 2 to 1 margin, Spassky about a 2-1 margin, seems to me alot of players were vulnerable cuase Fischer made um that way.Fischer doesnt leave chess till he gets the championship.If not in 72, then 75 Fischer wasnt paranoid of players he was paranoid of mother Russia he new he had the ability to topple the russian supremecy in chess and so did the russians. |
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| Nov-09-10 | | Jim Bartle: Nice double sacrifice for Benko to defeat Inei in 1949:
click for larger viewWhite to play. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | ooda: "Bobby was afraid that if he had defended against Karpov in 1975, the Russians would have had him murdered." Pal Benko. Maybe Fischer believed that or maybe not but I really doubt the Russians would have done this because Fischer's murder would be way worse for Soviet Propaganda than there being an American Chess Champion I think. I suppose they could make it look like an accident but even this would be damaging. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | Caissanist: QOTD from Benko: <Bobby was afraid that if he had defended against Karpov in 1975, the Russians would have had him murdered.> Anyone know the source for this? |
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| Apr-13-11 | | Akavall: This just shows that Pal Benko should not be taken seriously when it comes to chess history. |
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Apr-13-11
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| Apr-13-11 | | talisman: that is a fact.....(said the same many years ago but that's ok) ! |
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| Apr-14-11 | | Shams: Weren't there eight players who had to step aside? Presumably none were of Benko's stature, but history should duly record all eight names anyway. It's doubtful Fischer ever thanked any of them. |
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Apr-14-11
| | HeMateMe: ? the USA closed was its own zonal, top 3 get to go to the next round. where do you get the number 8? Benko decided to do what was best for chess, and gave up his place. Not sure who the other two finishers were. Probably Robert Byrne, maybe Bill Lombardy. Its possible one other player might have offered his seat, but given Fischer's history of walking out of tournaments, why bother? |
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