Benjamin Blumenfeld, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benjamin Blumenfeld

Russian chess player

Date of Birth: 24-May-1884

Place of Birth: Vawkavysk, Belarus

Date of Death: 05-Mar-1947

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Belarus

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Benjamin Blumenfeld (24 May 1884, Vilkaviškis – 5 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian chess master. He was born in Vilkaviškis, in the Suwalki Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania).
In 1905/06 he tied for second/third with Akiba Rubinstein, behind Gersz Salwe, in St.
Petersburg (the fourth Russian championship).
In 1907 he tied for second/third with Georg Marco, behind Mikhail Chigorin, in Moscow.
In 1920 he took eighth in Moscow (Russian Chess Olympiad, 1st URS-ch).
The event was won by Alexander Alekhine.
In 1925 he tied for second/third with Boris Verlinsky, behind Aleksandr Sergeyev, in the Moscow championship. He invented the Blumenfeld Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nf3 b5).