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Albert Pinkus
A Pinkus 
 

Number of games in database: 170
Years covered: 1924 to 1972
Overall record: +71 -46 =49 (57.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 4 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (24) 
    C83 C84 C91 C78 C97
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (14) 
    C84 C91 C89 C97 C99
 French Defense (8) 
    C13 C07 C10 C18 C12
 Sicilian (7) 
    B93 B58 B29 B72 B20
 Ruy Lopez, Open (6) 
    C83 C82
 Nimzo Indian (5) 
    E43 E29 E54 E46
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (14) 
    C83 C77 C68 C88 C86
 Orthodox Defense (10) 
    D51 D55 D61 D60 D52
 Queen's Gambit Declined (8) 
    D38 D37 D31
 Nimzo Indian (8) 
    E33 E49 E51 E48 E25
 Grunfeld (8) 
    D82 D90 D70 D74 D73
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (6) 
    C86 C88 C84 C98
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   A Pinkus vs R Durkin, 1941 1-0
   A Pinkus vs Konigsburg, 1934 1-0
   A Pinkus vs Santasiere, 1926 1-0
   W Adams vs A Pinkus, 1941 0-1
   C Pilnick vs A Pinkus, 1939 0-1
   A Pinkus vs Lilienthal, 1945 1/2-1/2
   Alekhine vs A Pinkus, 1929 0-1
   Lilienthal vs A Pinkus, 1945 1/2-1/2
   G Hellman vs A Pinkus, 1939 0-1
   A Pinkus vs S Baron, 1948 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Ventnor City (1944)
   United States Championship (1940)
   Ventnor City (1941)
   Ventnor City (1942)
   Manhattan CC-ch 5556 (1955)
   United States Championship (1942)
   49th US Open (1948)
   United States Championship (1946)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   American Chess Bulletin 1944 by Phony Benoni
   US Open 1939, New York = 40th ACF Congress by Phony Benoni
   Ventnor City 1942 by Phony Benoni
   Ventnor City 1941 by Phony Benoni
   1944 US championship by crawfb5


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ALBERT PINKUS
(born Mar-20-1903, died Feb-04-1984, 80 years old) United States of America

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Albert Sidney Pinkus was Champion of both the Manhattan (1941, 1945) and Marshall Chess Clubs, and played in the U.S. Championship five times. He became a stock broker in 1939. Younger brother of Milton Pinkus.

Wikipedia article: Albert Pinkus

https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/201...

Last updated: 2022-05-16 04:44:03

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 page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 170  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Marshall vs A Pinkus 0-1641924Dimock themeC54 Giuoco Piano
2. M Wilenkin vs A Pinkus  1-0361924New York ch Stuyvesant Chess ClubC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
3. A Pinkus vs H Liebenstein  1-0461924New York ch Stuyvesant Chess ClubC66 Ruy Lopez
4. A Pinkus vs Kupchik  1-0331924New York-ch Rice CCC41 Philidor Defense
5. A Pinkus vs Kashdan 0-1491925Albert Hallgarten prelim-AC97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
6. Santasiere vs A Pinkus 0-1241925Dimock Theme TournamentC54 Giuoco Piano
7. O W Field vs A Pinkus  1-0501925Albert Hallgarten prelim-AC88 Ruy Lopez
8. A Pinkus vs F Bartha  1-0221925Albert Hallgarten prelim-AD64 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
9. A Pinkus vs Marshall 0-1221926Dimock themeC51 Evans Gambit
10. A Pinkus vs Santasiere 1-0301926Dimock themeB20 Sicilian
11. B Forsberg vs A Pinkus  1-0361926Marshall CC ChampionshipC68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
12. A Pinkus vs Kashdan 0-1331926Manhattan CC-chD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
13. Kashdan vs A Pinkus  1-0401927Manhattan CC-chD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
14. Kashdan vs A Pinkus 1-0391927Junior MastersC45 Scotch Game
15. Kupchik vs A Pinkus 1-0441928Manhattan CC-chD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. A Pinkus vs Kupchik  0-1601928Manhattan CC-chE17 Queen's Indian
17. Kashdan vs A Pinkus  ½-½431928Manhattan CC-chD65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line
18. A Pinkus vs Kashdan 1-0361928Manhattan CC-chE00 Queen's Pawn Game
19. Alekhine vs A Pinkus 0-1571929Clock simul, 9bC86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack
20. A Pinkus vs Kashdan  0-1711929Manhattan CC-chC42 Petrov Defense
21. Kupchik vs A Pinkus  0-1391930Manhattan Chess Club-chC28 Vienna Game
22. A Pinkus vs J H Mathias  1-0131933Metropolitan Chess LeagueC13 French
23. H Liebenstein vs A Pinkus  0-1321934Manhattan CC - Stuyvesant CCB84 Sicilian, Scheveningen
24. A Pinkus vs Konigsburg 1-0261934Metropolitan Chess LeagueC70 Ruy Lopez
25. C Pilnick vs A Pinkus 0-1231939USA-ch prelA03 Bird's Opening
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Kibitzer's Corner
Mar-13-04  sleepkid: ...the Indiana Jones of chess...
Apr-04-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: I remember when they wrote about Albert Pinkus in Chess Life back in the 90's. He lived an interesting life it seems.
Apr-04-07  Resignation Trap: For one thing, he was a collector of botanical specimens from South America. Here's a plant named for him, Vochysia pinkusii: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/common/ima... .
Apr-04-07  Resignation Trap: I'd be thrilled just to have a fungus named after me!
Mar-20-11  wordfunph: anecdotes in memory of Albert Pinkus..

In 1984, Al Pinkus died from Alzheimer's disease at Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn. His son Larry said that the disease ground him down inexorably and that he eventually had difficulty remembering to punch his chess clock after moving.

***

Robert Byrne remembered watching a fascinating combat between the swashbuckling attacker Arnold Denker and defiant defender Albert Pinkus. After Arnold had got off one of his scintillating pawn sacrifices, Albert snatched it, wrote down "Show me" on his scoresheet, and got up from the table. When he returned to make his move, he was jolted to find the reply in the margin, "Don't worry. I will!" in Denker's inimitable hand. That day he did, too.

i forgot where i lifted these stories, maybe from Chess Life or other source.

Mar-20-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: <wordfunph> That story is from Denker himself. It's from his autobiographical collection "If You Must Play Chess", describing the game Denker vs Pinkus, 1946.

I'll put the exact quote on the game page.

Mar-20-11  Caissanist: Pinkus is the subject of an enjoyable chapter of Arnold Denker's memoir "The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories", which includes the anecdotes <wordfunph> mentions.
Mar-20-11  wordfunph: <Phony Benoni> <Caissanist> thanks for the correction.
Mar-20-12  brankat: Mr.Pinkus did have some good results against very strong players.

R.I.P. Mr.Pinkus.

Mar-20-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Albert Pinkus.
Mar-20-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: started the first German consulting detective agency?
Mar-08-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: In 1932 Pinkus quit his job as a stockbroker and for seven years he explored the jungles of Venezuela and British Guiana, collecting zoological and botanical specimens for museums, zoos, colleges and dealers, before returning to New York in 1939 and resuming his chess career (Chess Review, February 1945, p.5)

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