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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 2nd-3rd with Akiba Rubinstein , behind Gersz Salwe , in St. Petersburg (4th RUS-ch). In 1907, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Georg Marco , behind Mikhail Chigorin , in Moscow. In 1920, he took 8th in Moscow (Russian Chess Olympiad, 1st URS-ch). The event was won by Alexander Alekhine . In 1925, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Boris Verlinsky , behind Sergeev, in the Moscow championship. He invented the Blumenfeld Counter Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nf3 b5). |
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