Benjamin Blumenfeld

Benjamin Markovich Blumenfeld ( Russian Бениамин Маркович Блюменфельд, scientific transliteration Beniamin Markovič Bljumenfeľd; born May 24, 1884 in Waukawysk; † March 5, 1947 in Moscow) was a Russian chess master and theoretician.

Blumenfeld, one in Moscow and Berlin university- trained lawyer, was in the decade before the First World War as one of Moscow's best players. He celebrated his biggest success at the 4th All-Russian Masters Tournament 1905/1906 in St. Petersburg, when he finished second in collaboration with Akiba Rubinstein. In 1907 he was shared at an international tournament in Moscow in second. In 1911 he became master of Moscow and took after the October Revolution to the first championship in 1920 of the Soviet state, All- Russian Olympiad called, in part: he was eighth. In 1925, he shared second and third place at the Moscow Championship.

Blumenfeld's theoretical work was one of the foundations of the Soviet chess school. According to him, the Blumenfeld Gambit ( 1.d2 -d4 - f6 2.c2 - c4 Ng8 e7 - e6 c7 - c5 3.Sg1 -f3 4.d4 d5 b7 - b5) is named.

Works

• Rol endschpila w schachmatnoj parti [ The role of the final match in the game of chess ], Leningrad 1931
• Mud Alekhine - Bogolyubov, Moscow 1931
• Kombinazja w schachmatnoj parti [ The combination in the game of chess ], Moscow 1938