Faster access than browser!
48 relations: Alexei Shirov, Artificial castling, Batsford, Benoni Defense, Boris Gelfand, Buenos Aires, Candidates Tournament, Chess endgame, Chess Olympiad, Chess opening, Chessgames.com, Compensation (chess), David Bronstein, Eduard Gufeld, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Erich Eliskases, Evgeny Bareev, Fianchetto, Gambit, Garry Kasparov, Gideon Ståhlberg, Grandmaster (chess), Half-open file, John Fedorowicz, Karel Opočenský, King's Indian Defence, List of chess openings, List of chess openings named after people, Mark Taimanov, Michael Adams (chess player), Mikhail Tal, Pal Benko, Paul Keres, Pavilion Books, Pawn (chess), Pärnu, Pin (chess), Poděbrady, Prague, Quality Chess, Samara, Theo van Scheltinga, Vassily Ivanchuk, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Volga River, World Chess Championship, Zürich.
Alexei Shirov
Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs;; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess grandmaster.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Alexei Shirov · See more »
Artificial castling
In chess, artificial castling (also called castling by hand) refers to a maneuver in which a king which has lost the right to castle achieves a castled position in several normal moves, instead of the one special move.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Artificial castling · See more »
Batsford
Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Batsford · See more »
Benoni Defense
The Benoni Defense is a chess opening characterized by the moves: Black can then sacrifice a pawn with 3...b5 (the Benko Gambit), otherwise 3...e6 is the most common move (although 3...d6 or 3...g6 are also seen, typically transposing to main lines).
New!!: Benko Gambit and Benoni Defense · See more »
Boris Gelfand
Boris Abramovich Gelfand (Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, Barys Abramavich Hel'fand; Борис Абрамович Гельфанд, Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; born 24 June 1968) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Boris Gelfand · See more »
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Buenos Aires · See more »
Candidates Tournament
The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess' international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Candidates Tournament · See more »
Chess endgame
In chess and chess-like games, the endgame (or end game or ending) is the stage of the game when few pieces are left on the board.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Chess endgame · See more »
Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Chess Olympiad · See more »
Chess opening
A chess opening or simply an opening refers to the initial moves of a chess game.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Chess opening · See more »
Chessgames.com
Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Chessgames.com · See more »
Compensation (chess)
In chess, compensation is the typically short-term positional advantages a player has in exchange for typically material disadvantage.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Compensation (chess) · See more »
David Bronstein
David Ionovich Bronstein (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951.
New!!: Benko Gambit and David Bronstein · See more »
Eduard Gufeld
Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld (March 19, 1936, Kiev, Soviet Union – September 23, 2002) was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Eduard Gufeld · See more »
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings
The Encyclopedia of Chess Openings is a classification system for the opening moves in chess.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings · See more »
Erich Eliskases
Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Erich Eliskases · See more »
Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966 in Yemanzhelinsk) is a Russian (until 2015) and Canadian (since 2015) chess grandmaster and coach.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Evgeny Bareev · See more »
Fianchetto
In chess, the fianchetto ("little flank") is a pattern of development wherein a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent knight file, the knight pawn having been moved one or two squares forward.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Fianchetto · See more »
Gambit
A gambit (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning "to trip") is a chess opening in which a player, more often White, sacrifices, usually a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Gambit · See more »
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров,; Armenian: Գարրի Կիմովիչ Կասպարով; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, who many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Garry Kasparov · See more »
Gideon Ståhlberg
Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg (or Stahlberg) (26 January 1908, Surte near Gothenburg – 26 May 1967, Leningrad) was a Swedish chess grandmaster.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Gideon Ståhlberg · See more »
Grandmaster (chess)
The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Grandmaster (chess) · See more »
Half-open file
In chess, a half-open file (or semi-open file) is a with only pawns of one color.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Half-open file · See more »
John Fedorowicz
John Peter Fedorowicz (born September 27, 1958) from the Bronx area of New York is an American International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer.
New!!: Benko Gambit and John Fedorowicz · See more »
Karel Opočenský
Karel Opočenský (7 February 1892, Most, Bohemia – 16 November 1975, Prague) was a Czech chess master.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Karel Opočenský · See more »
King's Indian Defence
The King's Indian Defence is a common chess opening.
New!!: Benko Gambit and King's Indian Defence · See more »
List of chess openings
This is a list of chess openings, organized by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code.
New!!: Benko Gambit and List of chess openings · See more »
List of chess openings named after people
The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants.
New!!: Benko Gambit and List of chess openings named after people · See more »
Mark Taimanov
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Mark Taimanov · See more »
Michael Adams (chess player)
Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Michael Adams (chess player) · See more »
Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Mihails Tāls; Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal,; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).
New!!: Benko Gambit and Mikhail Tal · See more »
Pal Benko
Pal Benko (Benkő Pál; born July 14, 1928) is a Hungarian–American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Pal Benko · See more »
Paul Keres
Paul Keres (January 7, 1916June 5, 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Paul Keres · See more »
Pavilion Books
Pavilion Books Holdings Ltd is an English publishing company based in London.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Pavilion Books · See more »
Pawn (chess)
The pawn (♙,♟) is the most numerous piece in the game of chess, and in most circumstances, also the weakest.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Pawn (chess) · See more »
Pärnu
Pärnu (Pernau) is the fourth-largest city in Estonia.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Pärnu · See more »
Pin (chess)
In chess, a pin is a situation brought on by an attacking piece in which a defending piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable defending piece on its other side to capture by the attacking piece.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Pin (chess) · See more »
Poděbrady
Poděbrady (Podiebrad) is a historical spa town in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Poděbrady · See more »
Prague
Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Prague · See more »
Quality Chess
Quality Chess UK Ltd (known as Quality Chess) is a chess publishing company, founded in 2004 by International Master Ari Ziegler, Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard and Grandmaster John Shaw.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Quality Chess · See more »
Samara
Samara (p), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (Ќуйбышев), is the sixth largest city in Russia and the administrative center of Samara Oblast.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Samara · See more »
Theo van Scheltinga
Tjeerd (Theo) Daniel van Scheltinga (6 March 1914, Amsterdam – 30 July 1994) was a Dutch chess player.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Theo van Scheltinga · See more »
Vassily Ivanchuk
Vassily Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyliy or Vasyl (Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and a former World Rapid Chess Champion.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Vassily Ivanchuk · See more »
Veselin Topalov
Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced; Весели́н Александров Топа́лов; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Veselin Topalov · See more »
Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Viswanathan Anand · See more »
Volga River
The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Volga River · See more »
World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.
New!!: Benko Gambit and World Chess Championship · See more »
Zürich
Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.
New!!: Benko Gambit and Zürich · See more »
Redirects here:
A57 (chess opening), A58 (chess opening), A59 (chess opening), Benko Gambit, 7.e4, Benko gambit, Benko gambit, 7.e4, Benko's Gambit, Benkő Gambit, Vaitonis Gambit, Volga Gambit, Volga gambit.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benko_Gambit
