CHESS PLAYER

Pal Benko

1928 - 2019

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Pal Charles Benko (Hungarian: Benkő Pál; July 15, 1928 – August 25, 2019) was a Hungarian and American chess player, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pal Benko has received more than 207,521 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Pal Benko is the 73rd most popular chess player (up from 82nd in 2019), the 3,253rd most popular biography from France (up from 3,282nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Pal Benko ranks 73 out of 461. Before him are Semyon Alapin, Isaac Boleslavsky, Michael Adams, Vlastimil Hort, Louis Paulsen, and Edward Lasker. After him are Philipp Stamma, Lev Polugaevsky, Adolf Albin, Isidor Gunsberg, Maia Chiburdanidze, and Rudolf Charousek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Pal Benko ranks 256. Before him are Nils Christie, Alexander Gomelsky, Annie Cordy, Anthony Franciosa, Sohrab Sepehri, and Edgar Schein. After him are Azlan Shah of Perak, Charles Gray, William Klein, Pilar Lorengar, Maynard Ferguson, and Ann Morgan Guilbert. Among people deceased in 2019, Pal Benko ranks 193. Before him are José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Negasso Gidada, Jean Guillou, José José, Robert Evans, and Sadako Ogata. After him are Scott Walker, Rudi Gutendorf, Bob Hawke, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chelo Alonso, and Jean-Pierre Mocky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pal Benko ranks 3,253 out of 6,770. Before him are Amédée Courbet (1827), Henri Queuille (1884), Indila (1984), Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1798), Hugues Aufray (1929), and Antoine de Rivarol (1753). After him are Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet (1831), Jean-Luc Ponty (1942), Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (1010), Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613), Charles Floquet (1828), and Thierry Breton (1955).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In France

Among chess players born in France, Pal Benko ranks 3. Before him are François-André Danican Philidor (1726), and Legall de Kermeur (1702). After him are Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800), André Chéron (1895), Chantal Chaudé de Silans (1919), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (1990), Étienne Bacrot (1983), Laurent Fressinet (1981), and Marie Sebag (1986).

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