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Pal Benko

Author : Pal Benko

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 49,11 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Chess

ISBN : 9781890085087

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Grandmaster Pal Benko is a chess legend: A challenger for the World Championship, an innovator of many modern opening systems, a problem composer par excellence, and a father figure to his close friend Bobby Fischer, Benko has played and defeated most of the top players of the last fifty years. This biography is a celebration of a great man's creative legacy. Its amazing collection of 138 deeply annotated games which have been carefully prepared to be entertaining, enlightening, and instructive is brought to life by Benko's memoirs of his early years in war-torn Hungary, a world of poverty, chaos, pain, and ultimately, personal triumph. His insights into famous grandmasters transform legends into real people with substance and personality, and his reminiscences of famous tournaments take us on a journey through chess history unlike anything that's been published before. Interviews with note players offer insights into Benko's nature. A massive survey of Benko's openings (by John Watson) shows us the scope of Benko's theoretical contributions to the game. Photos abound, and 300 of Benko's chess compositions allow lovers of the game to become intimately acquainted with a strikingly beautiful aspect of chess that most have overlooked. This highly entertaining and instructive book gives competitors who wish to improve their playing strength a dynamic, fun way to deepen their knowledge and understanding.



PAL BENKO

Author : PAL. BENKO

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Page : pages

File Size : 30,59 MB

Release : 2021

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ISBN : 9781890085223

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Basic Chess Endings

Author : Reuben Fine

Publisher : Random House Puzzles & Games

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 24,14 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9780812934939

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The most authoritative reference work on the,endgame, serious students of chess will find this,book unmatched in its depth and range. Updated,with the latest innovations in the endgame and,adapted to algebraic notation by Grandmaster Pal,Benko, the result is what chess aficionados have,been waiting for - a thoroughly modern bible on,chess endings. Packed with diagrams that make,examples easy to follow, this is an indispensable,point of reference for the Grandmaster in the,making.



Winning with Chess Psychology

Author : Pal Benko

Publisher : Random House Puzzles & Games

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 28,99 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Games

ISBN : 9780812918663

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Outlines the development of psychological principles used by chess champions to defeat their opponents and discusses how to use phychological factors to win at chess



Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory

Author : Pal Benko

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 34,60 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9780923891886

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Grandmaster Pal Benko is the World's Greatest Authority on the Chess Endgame. Since January 1981, he has written a monthly column in Chess Life magazine entitled "Endgame Lab". This book is a collection of those columns published in the years 1981 through 1986. Grandmaster Benko needs no introduction in the world of chess. He was at one time ranked in the top eight players in the world. He has beaten Bobby Fischer three times. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, whenever Benko entered a Swiss system chess tournament, the only question was who was going to finish second, because Benko almost always won He won the US Open Championship eight times. His articles are about playing endgames. Benko writes about practical endgames that regularly come up in tournament play: Basic endgames such as how to win with rook and four pawns against rook and three pawns or how to draw if you happen to be on the weaker side. In short, Benko teaches you how YOU can score more points in regular tournament play. Benko also shows how even world champions and some of the strongest players in the world have sometimes messed up basic endgames and lost games they should have drawn or lost or drawn games they should have won.



Mortal Games

Author : Fred Waitzkin

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 251 pages

File Size : 16,45 MB

Release : 2017-02-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1504043014

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An illuminating profile of the world champion chess player and political activist by the acclaimed author of Searching for Bobby Fischer. Over the course of his unprecedented career, Garry Kasparov dominated the chess world with astonishing creativity and explosive passion. In this unforgettable work of reportage, author Fred Waitzkin “captures better than anyone—including Kasparov himself in his own memoir—the various sides of this elusive genius” (The Observer). Waitzkin had intimate access to his subject during Kasparov’s gripping 1990 matches against his sworn enemy, Anatoly Karpov. As the world chess champion defends his title, Waitzkin analyzes the match play with verve and depth that will delight lay readers and aspiring grandmasters alike. Against this backdrop, Waitzkin assembles a fascinating portrait of a complicated man who is both a generational talent and an outspoken advocate of Russian democracy, brilliant and volcanic, tenacious and charismatic, despairing one moment and exuberant the next.



The Benko Gambit Revealed

Author : Neil McDonald

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 38,48 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9780713488685

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The Benko Gambit, named after the Hungarian player Pal Benko, who pioneered it, has long been a favorite opening of dynamic tournament chess players. This entertaining guide is part of a series that treats openings in a fresh new way. “First Moves” leads you through the basics as you start the gambit. “Tricks and Traps” reveals the secrets of catching out your opponent. And “What’s Hot” divulges the very latest ideas from the champions. A detailed table summarizes the main variations, with assessments.



My 60 Memorable Games

Author : Bobby Fischer

Publisher :

Page : 237 pages

File Size : 23,63 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Chess

ISBN : 9780713478129

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A collection of the 60 best games of Bobby Fischer, analyzed by himself. The games are reset by John Nunn into modern algebraic notation, providing an insight into the methods and thought processes of one of the greatest chess champions.



The Unstoppable American

Author : Jan Timman

Publisher : New In Chess,Csi

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 27,93 MB

Release : 2021-08-25

Category : Chess

ISBN : 9789056919788

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"Initially things looked gloomy for Bobby Fischer. Because he had refused to participate in the 1969 US Championship, he had missed his chance to qualify for the 1970 Interzonal Tournament in Palma de Mallorca. Only when another American, Pal Benko, withdrew in his favour, and after the officials were willing to bend the rules, could Bobby enter the contest. And begin his phenomenal run that would end with the Match of the Century in Reykjavik against World Champion Boris Spassky. ... Jan Timman chronicles the full story of Fischer's sensational run and takes a fresh look at the games. The annotations are in the author's trademark lucid style, that happy mix of colourful background information and sharp, crystal-clear explanations."--Back cover.



First Piatigorsky Cup International Grandmaster Chess Tournament Held in Los Angeles, California July 1963

Author : Samuel Reshevsky

Publisher : Ishi Press

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 41,68 MB

Release : 2009-11-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9784871878432

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To help bring to the United States chess of the highest quality in the world, Mrs. Gregor Piatigorsky and her husband, the world renowned cellist, created the Piatigorsky Cup as a symbol of excellence in chess. Along with the trophy went the finest playing conditions and the highest prizes ever offered for any chess event. For the first time since 1932, a world chess champion appeared in an American tournament when Tigran Petrosian, USSR, joined seven other of the greatest international grandmasters in a month of competition at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Players, in addition to Petrosian, included Paul Keres, also of the Soviet Union; Miguel Najdorf and Oscar Panno of Argentina; Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland; Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia; and Samuel Reshevsky and Pal Benko of the United States. This book contains the complete score of all 56 games played by these eight international grandmasters. All of the games have been converted into Algebraic Notation. Each of the players annotated the game he considered his best and Reshevsky annotated the rest. The book is edited by Isaac Kashdan. Many of these games are likely to become classics and every chess player, from novice to master, will be able to learn fine points of the game from this volume.