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In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

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Pal Benko
Age: 91 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 15
Died: 2019
Died: August 25
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Pál Charles Benkő
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