Happy Birthday, Pal Benko

Pal Benko, the Hungarian-born chess grandmaster, has just turned 80.
I first heard of Pal Benko at the U.S. Chess Championship in 1983.  I thought that I remembered him playing there, but the tournament records show that he was not a player that year.  Perhaps he was covering it as a journalist, or perhaps my memory [...]

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