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| Pal
Benko | | My
Life, Games, and Compositions |
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Pal Benko and Jeremy Silman, with an opening survey
by John Watson and a foreword by Woman's World
Champion Susan Polgar, 1-890085-08-1, cloth $45.00 | |
"Pal
Benko's love of chess is an inspiration. A
most impressive autobiography!"
GM
Lubomir Kavalek, three-time U.S. Champion, chess
columnist for The Washington Post.
"GM Pal Benko is one of the greatest composers
and endgame specialists of the 20th century. He gives
us 300 of these compositions in this book, and if all
those gems weren't enough, he intrigues us with
the story of his life, while revealing in-depth notes
with world-class competition. A real chess renaissance
man, his contributions to the royal game are immense."
GM
Walter Browne, six-time U.S. Champion
"I've always had a great deal of respect
for Benko's endgame compositions. Whenever I
see a Benko endgame I always try to solve it but
first I make sure that I won't be disturbed for
the rest of the day."
GM John Nunn, 1980
British Chess Champion, four-time gold medal winner at
Chess Olympiads, author of Nunn's Chess Openings and
many other popular chess titles
"When Benko arrived, I saw that he was one
of the finest positional and endgame players in the
world. We enjoyed many battles together. If you removed
the king and queen (and the clock) from the board,
no one could beat him."
GM Arthur Bisguier,
1954 U.S. Champion, author of The Art of Bisguier
"From out of the land of Reti to the Wild West
came a subtle positional stylist. He gave me lessons over
the board. If not for his clock, or daring 1e4!? against
me, I could never have won a game. Reincarnated as
an endgame composer without peer, Pal Benko now has
his monument."
IM Anthony Saidy, author
of The Battle of
Chess Ideas and The World of Chess | | | | | | |
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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 amazing collection of 138 deeply annotated games carefully
prepared to be entertaining, enlightening, and instructive is
brought to life by Pal Benko's memoirs of his
early years in war-torn Hungary where he takes the
reader into a world of poverty, chaos, pain, and ultimately,
personal triumph. His insights into famous grandmasters
transform their names into real people with substance
and personality, and his reminiscences of legendary
tournaments take us on a journey of chess history unlike
anything that's been published before.
Pal Benko: My Life, Games and Compositions is
a celebration of this great man's creative legacy:
Interviews with other players offer further insights
into Benko's nature. A massive survey of Benko's
openings (by famed author 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. |
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Pal
Benko is a Grandmaster, a former World Championship
Candidate, a winner of innumerable international
competitions, the author of hundreds of articles
and several chess books (including Winning with
Chess Psychology and Chess Endgame Lessons),
and the most dominating open tournament player
in American history, Pal Benko's name is entwined
in virtually every modern area of chess mythology
and chess theory.
Jeremy Silman is an International
Master and a world-class teacher, writer, and player
who won the American Open, the National Open, and the
U.S. Open. Considered by many to be the game's
preeminent instructive writer, he is the author of
over thirty-six highly popular books, including How
to Reassess Your Chess (now universally accepted
as a modern classic), The Amateur's Mind, The
Complete Book of Chess Strategy, and The
Reassess Your Chess Workbook. His website (www.jeremysilman.com)
offers fans of the game free instruction, book reviews,
theoretical articles, details of his work in the creation
of the chess scene in the movie Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone, and an easy way to
keep up with chess news. John Watson is an International Master
whose groundbreaking four-volume study of the English
Opening in the 1980s, followed by other opening treatises,
have firmly established his reputation as one of the
world's great theoretical writers. His books Secrets
of Modern Chess Strategy (winner of the 1999 British
Chess Federation Book of the Year Award) and Chess
Strategy in Action (2003) further catapulted his
status to that of chess philosopher, with
many experts now considering him to be one of the most
profound thinkers in the game's history. |
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