Ben Finegold

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Benjamin Finegold, Las Vegas 2009
Surname Benjamin Philip Finegold
Association United StatesUnited States United States
Born September 6, 1969
Detroit , United States
title International Master (1990)
Grand Master (2009)
Current  Elo rating 2476 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2563 (January and April 2006)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Benjamin Philip Finegold (born September 6, 1969 in Detroit ) is an American chess player .

successes

In addition to dozens of chess tournaments in the Midwest, especially Michigan, he won the US Open in Chicago in 1994 (shared) and in Cherry Hill, New Jersey in 2007 (shared). He received the title of International Master in 1990 and has been a Grand Master since 2009. He achieved the standards for his GM title at the 30th World Open in Philadelphia in 2002 (fourth place, tied with the winner Kamil Mitoń ), at an invitation tournament in Lincolnwood, Illinois 2005 as well as in the B group of the Spice Cup in Lubbock 2009.

Finegold played in the 1989/90 season with the SF Dortmund-Brackel in the German Federal Chess League . In the United States Chess League he played from 2010 to 2014 for the team of the St. Louis Arch Bishops , with which he became champions in 2014 .

Ben Finegold also works as a chess trainer and chess tournament organizer. He appears in chess teaching videos on YouTube. In honor of Ben Finegold's father Ron, who himself was one of the top 50 US chess players in the 1960s , the first Ron was born at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta founded by Ben Finegold on March 31 and April 1, 2018 Finegold Memorial held as a chess tournament.

Ciaffone Finegold Defense
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Ciaffone Finegold Defense

In Hannes Langrock's book The Modern Morra Gambit: A Dynamic Weapon Against the Sicilian , the Ciaffone Finegold Defense (also known as the Finegold Defense ) in the Morra Gambit of the Sicilian Defense is mentioned as a separate variant:

1. e2 – e4 c7 – c5 2. d2 – d4 c5xd4 3. c2 – c3 d4xc3 4. Nb1xc3 d7 – d6 5. Ng1 – f3 e7 – e6 6. Bf1 – c4 Bf8 – e7 7. 0–0 Ng8 – f6 8. Qd1-e2 a7-a6 .

Publications

  • Smith-Morra Gambit Finegold Defense . Gameplayer, USA 2000, ISBN 0-9661007-3-5 (together with Bob Ciaffone).
  • Chess with Ben Finegold. Chess Tactics for Scholastic Players . 3 DVDs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Article on Ben Finegold. In: New York Times , October 3, 2009 (English)
  2. Davide Nastasio: 1st Ron Finegold Memorial . ChessBase, May 7, 2018, accessed May 7, 2018