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	There is a new post on The Chess Mind.  You can read it at:

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1216177983.shtml

It begins:

	American GM Pal Benko (we've borrowed him from
	Hungary) turned 80 years old two days ago (thus
	Wikipedia) or yesterday (so says Chess Today).
	While he hasn't been a terror on the world scene
	for a long time, he's still a player to be
	celebrated, especially in the United States. He was
	a two-time candidate, a former Hungarian champion,
	a star for the U.S. in several Olympics, a player
	without whom Bobby Fischer couldn't have played in
	the 1970-1972 world championship cycle, a main
	popularizer (though not the inventor) of the Benko
	Gambit, a fine endgame study composer and...