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| Apr-19-04 | | Vischer: Is this the person who the Blumenfeld Gambit is named after? |
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| Oct-05-04 | | Jesuitic Calvinist: Don't know, Vischer, but my guess is "yes". Judging by some of the players he beat, he was clearly a good enough player to have his name attach to an opening. |
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| Jul-30-08 | | whiteshark: Bio: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjam...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjam...
<was one of the best players in Moscow between the First and Second World Wars.> ...but only one game in this database. |
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| Jan-24-10 | | Oliveira: Man, I've just read an article by Frank Mayer in which he discusses about "the Mistery of Benjamin Markowitch Blumenfeld" and states that further investigations on his life were unable to settle anything but confirm the facts already known. In fact, it's very weird that there aren't any photos of his or even featuring him in any of the numerous tournaments he took part. Besides, the reason why the so-called Blumenfed gambit has his name isn't clear at all since there isn't even one registered game of his in which it was played. But the weirdest thing is what comes next: Mayer transcribes a supposed conversation between two historians, whose names are probably fictitious, in which one of them affirms to know the secret of Blumenfeld. Actually of the Blumenfeld brothers! They would be twin brothers with only a slight difference and one was a king's pawn specialist and the other a queen's pawn one. And then in a tournament after his (or more suitable "their") adversary had made his first move, if it didn't match, the one who was engaged in the game would get up and go to the bathroom while his counterpart would take upon the game! And that would be the reason why they don't posed for photos. I don't know if this is truthfull, but it is really surreal! And indeed, as the German novelist Herr Gerhard Josten said, "chess is full of enigmas!" Here's the article (in Spanish): http://www.tabladeflandes.com/frank... You can read this article also in Portuguese here: http://www.torre21.com/modules/arti... |
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| Dec-21-10 | | Oliveira: *I meant there isn't a single known picture depicting him and no games registered where he employs the gambit named (probably) after him. Sorry my bad English. |
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May-24-11
 | | Domdaniel: There are certainly more Blumenfeld games out there. Chess365 has 18 of them, and Chessbase about 25, including some consultation games. Neither includes the dubious 1903 game with Nimzowitsch. He played a match with Alekhine in 1908, from which two games are on record. These are still low numbers, and almost all the games are pre-1920. Even Rusbase doesn't seem to have any other games from the 1st USSR championship in 1920. |
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May-24-11
| | Domdaniel: He must have done *something* to earn a reputation as an opening theorist and one of the strongest players in Moscow - there was serious competition on both fronts. For example, the 1931 USSR ch'ship, in which Blumenfeld did not play, had at least seven players who have important opening variations named after them: Iljin-Zhenevsky, Kan, Rauzer, Veresov, etc. |
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| Aug-17-11 | | whiteshark: Antanas Gustaitis* became the Lithinian Chess Champion 1922 (<<Benjamin Blumenfeld> emigrated to Russia before a playoff match could be arranged>) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithua... * so far not in the chessgames.com database --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antana... |
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| May-24-12 | | brankat: <He later became a student of chess psychology. He received his doctorate for a thesis on the nature of blunders in chess..> I did study (extensively) the same subject matter. Not at a university level though.
Just OTB :-) |
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| May-24-12 | | brankat: R.I.P. Mr.Blumenfeld. |
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| Oct-03-12 | | wordfunph: entertaining anecdote by D. Bjelica from his book Grandmaster in Profile.. <GM Lev Polugaevsky told us a story to Dimitri Bjelica from a Moscow tournament when master Blumenfeld's opponent persistently looked at his rival's notebook. Blemenfeld was
annoyed by this and so he wrote, "I am rather worried about the sacrifice of the queen of f7". Afterwards he went off for a walk. When he returned he saw that his opponent had played
exactly that move. Blumenfeld sat at the board and calmly wrote in the book: "As I suspected the sacrifice was incorrect."> rest in peace, master Blumenfeld.. |
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| Aug-25-16 | | hemy: Wrong picture of B.M.Blumenfeld on CG and Wikipedia. It is a picture of Isadore Blumenfeld:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/34839... Here is the picture of B.M.Blumenfeld:
http://www.proint.narod.ru/publ2016... |
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| Aug-26-16 | | hemy: Profile picture for B.M.Blumenfeld is a mistake, it belongs to the "Jewish Al Capone" Isadore Blumenfeld (aka Kid Cann), the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota.
http://www.citypages.com/news/the-f... |
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| Aug-26-16 | | hemy: German language page of Wikipedia displaying the right picture of B.M.Blumenfeld:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benja... |
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Sep-01-16
 | | Annie K.: Thanks, <hemy>. :) |
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| Sep-01-16 | | hemy: <Annie K.>I'm glad the picture of mobster removed and replaced by right picture of chess master. Wikipedia English language page of Benjamin Blumenfeld have wrong place of his birth:"Volkovysk, today Vawkavysk, Belarus".
According to Russian language page his birthday place was Lithuanian town Vilkaviškis which before 1917 was belonging to Russian Empire.
Sure the translation from Russian to English vent wrong. On the page 58 of the book "Žydai Lietuvos šachmatų istorijoje" you will found picture of Benjaminas Blumenfeldas passport issued in Kaunas, December 1921. The birthday place ("gimimo vieta") - Vilkaviškis. Unfortunately the picture on the page 56 is the same wrong picture that was replaced on CG. In the next edition of the book it will be replaced by the right picture taken from proint.narod.ru website. At end of 1921 after Blumenfeld returned to Kaunas it was advertised that he will play match for Lithuania championship title with Antanas Gustaitis - first Lithuanian champion, but the match was delayed many times and in 1922 he moved to Russia. |
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Sep-01-16
| | Annie K.: <hemy> you know so many wonderful anecdotes and interesting facts about otherwise little-known players... would you like to join our editor group and help write biographies for them? :) |
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| Sep-01-16 | | hemy: <Annie K.>I can not commit too much time for this task. Beside this English isn't my best language, I learned it at age of 50. At school I learned German and Lithuanian, but my best languages are Russian and Hebrew.
I can share my knowledge and write short biographies of some players, but someone will have to edit them. |
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Sep-01-16
| | Annie K.: <hemy> that's very good too! If you would like to have anything you write edited, you can either post it to the Biographer Bistro, or post it to the relevant player page, and just notify us about it at the Bistro, so we don't miss it. You can also speak in Hebrew with me, if it helps. :) |
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| Sep-01-16 | | hemy: <Annie K.> OK. I will try to do my best. |
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Sep-02-16
| | Annie K.: Great! There's no hurry, just do whatever you feel like. :) |
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| Sep-02-16 | | hemy: Benjamin Markovich Blumenfeld (born May-24-1884, died Mar-05-1947, 62 years old) Lithuania, Russia.
Benjamin Markovich Blumenfeld was born in Vilkaviškis (Vilkavishkis), small town in Southern Lithuania which before 1917 was belonging to Russian Empire.
He was introduced to chess in early age while learning in traditional Jewish school "kheyder".
In 1901 he took part in a local tournament in Libau (today Liepaja, Latvia)
The next year at age of 18 Blumenfeld went to Germany to study law at the university of Berlin. Here he frequently visited chess café "Kaiserhof" and became strong chess player. As a member of the student chess society he was admitted to the Berlin championship in 1903. Blumenfeld took 5th place in this strong tournament, which included masters Karo, Kon, Bernstein and Spielman.
At the end of 1905 Blumenfeld was invited to St. Petersburg to participate in the fourth Russian championship. In this tournament (December 22th 1905 - January 16th 1906) he tied for second/third with Akiba Rubinstein (12 from16), one point behind Gersz Salwe. For this result he was awarded master title.
Shortly after this tournament Blumenfeld moved to Moscow where he completed law study in Moscow University. At this time period Blumenfeld dedicated most of his time to professional activity and rarely played in chess tournaments.
In 1907 he tied for second/third with Georg Marco, behind Mikhail Chigorin, in Moscow masters tournament.
In 1920 he took eighth in Moscow (Russian Chess Olympiad). This event was won by Alexander Alekhine. Later this tournament was recognized as a 1st URS championship.
At end of 1921 Blumenfeld moved to Kaunas (Lithuania). It was advertised that he will play match for Lithuania championship title with Antanas Gustaitis - first Lithuanian champion, but the match was delayed many times and in 1922 he moved back to Russia.
In 1925 he tied for second/third with Boris Verlinsky, in the Moscow championship. In 1930 Blumenfeld took 3-5 place in Moscow masters tournament and in 1934 3-5 place in Moscow championship.
At this time period Blumenfeld also researched and published his works related to different aspects of chess battle.
The most important contribution of Blumenfeld to theory of chess was Blumenfeld gambit, opening that was later adopted by Alexander Alekhine.
In 1945, 2 years before he passed away Blumenfeld successfully defended his phd thesis,
an original academic research on psychology, based on chess intellection. |
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Sep-03-16
| | Annie K.: <hemy> a couple of questions, please? :) <In 1925 he tied for second/third with Boris Verlinsky, in the Moscow championship.> I am looking at USSR Championship (1925) and Moscow (1925), but I don't see Blumenfeld in either of them, nor Verlinsky on second place? <based on chess intellection> It's unclear what "intellection" means. Could you use a different word, or explain in Hebrew? Also, please check if all the links in the bio are going to the right players / events, and let me know where I should place the reference numbers in the text for your sources 1-4. :) |
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| Sep-03-16 | | hemy: <Annie K.><but I don't see Blumenfeld in either of them, nor Verlinsky on second place>
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/j...
Moscow championship 1925:
1.Sergeev Alexandr (13 from 17)
2-3 Blumenfeld Beniamin, Verlinsky Boris (12 from 17).
January 11 - February 25, 1925.
References in this article are to magazine "64 shachmati i shashki v rabochem klube" 1925 numbers 1,2,3,4 and "Chess encyclopedia" Karpov, 1990, page 552, page 624.On other subjects I will respond later. |
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| Sep-03-16 | | hemy: <Annie K.><It's unclear what "intellection" means. Could you use a different word, or explain in Hebrew?> I tried to explain his phd thesis subject using notion "intellection".
The definition "Intellection" could be found on http://www.dictionary.com/browse/in... 1. the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning. 2. a particular act of the intellect.
3. a conception or idea as the result of such an act; notion; thought. In Russian language it was
"Проблемы психологии наглядно действенного мышления на базе шахматного материала".
"Problems of psychology of visually effective thinking on the basis of chess material". |
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