Benjamin Blumenfeld

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Benjamin Blumenfeld (24 May 1884, Volkovysk - 5 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian chess master. Born in Volkovysk, Belarus (like Dawid Janowski), then Russia. 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.