{"id":4221,"date":"2019-08-28T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2019-08-28T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:11:11","slug":"chessflash-world-news-aug-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"ChessFlash World News: Aug 26, 2019 [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCHESS PROBLEM WIZARD\/SURVIVOR MAESTRO\/PAL BENKO\u00a0 “Mr. Benko Gambit” DIES AT AGE 91<\/h2>\n

This just in from the New York Times<\/em> and confirmed by chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar \u2026 Mr. Benko will forever be remembered for being aside 1972 world chess champion R. J Fischer … indeed almost all epic Fischer career moments by strange circumstance from beginning to end. Chess Grandmaster\/world title candidate \u2026 Mr. Benko gave up his world chess championship qualifier berth [1970 Palma Spain zonal] \u2026 permitting Fischer substitution. \u201cI did not have a ghost of a chance. Even .too late in Curocao,” Mr. Benko whispered softly over coffee [with me and a tremendous Titanic road chess player Milan Momic in Atlanta, Georgia, 1965] \u2026 shaking his head wistfully … Indeed a murderous run for his life during the Budapest Russian uprising led to Mr. Benko\u2019s youthful imprisonment … lucky beyond measure just to be alive \u2026 years later Mr. Pal Benko rushed from a totally accidental emergency refueling Hungarian chess team plane \u2026 screaming at the solitary startled Iceland embassy gate guard. \u201dHelp please … I will die\u201d then Mr. Benko roamed hundreds of American cities\/even small chess towns … for decades … often via Greyhound bus … I saw him everywhere … writing his legendary worldwide chess problem\/endgame column missive for half a century to boot. He won hundreds of US chess tournaments …\u00a0 almost all Benko chess records were of course lost upon a series of tragic moves by the US Chess Federation. Mere paper of the past. Dust in the wind. ##################<\/p>\n

— Jude Acers<\/em><\/p>\n

Poem in memoriam of Benko by Edward “The Laminator” LANGLA<\/h4>\n
My Tribute to Pal<\/h5>\n

Pal made ninety-one son of a gun
\nQuite truly one great Chessic Run
\nAnd along the way he had his Fun
\nOne Benko Baffler you are undone<\/p>\n

I wonder is chess played in Heaven
\nAnd Up There who* is on Board One
\nPlayin our Lord God seven to eleven
\nWith sudden death at the Rising Sun<\/p>\n

*Fischer and Morphy no doubt<\/p>\n

If chess players do not go to Heaven
\nHELL that chessic eternity to the last
\nThen that Devil\u2019s got one sure Plevin
\nAnd one badass new Hungarian cast<\/p>\n

The Basic Chess Endings in Algebraic
\nThe magic endgame Laboratory Perks
\nPal\u2019s life was quite the Chessic mosaic
\nNo wasted lifetime, just Immortal works<\/p>\n

What a guy …<\/p>\n

In tribute I send my game last night
\nBlack to move and win … clearly won
\nBishop + 5 vs Knight + 4 … Ke7 played<\/p>\n

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End games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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