# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pal-benko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:56:13.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pal-benko"
name: "Pal Benko"
slug: "pal-benko"
description: "Pal Charles Benko was a Hungarian and American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems."
tagline: "Hungarian-American chess player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pal_Benko_1964.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-07-15"
deathDate: "2019-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.58157333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pal Benko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pal Benko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pal Benko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pal Benko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pál Benkő"
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    title: "Pál Benkő"
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    title: "Pal Benko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pāls Benko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пал Бенке"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pal Benko"
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    title: "Бенко, Пал"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump