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Boris Blumin
Number of games in database: 25
Years covered: 1938 to 1969
Overall record: +8 -15 =2 (36.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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D52		Queen's Gambit Declined (2 games)
D61		Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack (2 games)
A49		King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 (2 games)
C84		Ruy Lopez, Closed (2 games)

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BORIS BLUMIN (born Jan-11-1908, died Feb-16-1998, 90 years old) Russia (federation/nationality United States of America) [what is this?] Boris Blumin was in born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Residing in Toronto, Ontario at one point, he was Canadian champion in 1936 (represented Montreal with 10/11 at Toronto) and 1937 (9.5/10 at Quebec). He later moved to the United States to become a U.S. master. Reference: http://www.chess.ca/ Wikipedia article: Boris Blumin

page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. B Blumin vs J Fliegel   1-0 48 1938 ACF Congress A91 Dutch Defense 2. J Soudakoff vs B Blumin   0-1 52 1938 39th ACF Congress. Prelim R D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 3. B Blumin vs Santasiere   0-1 40 1938 ACF Congress D75 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O c5, 8.dxc5 4. D S Polland vs B Blumin   1-0 44 1938 ACF Congress E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3 5. B Blumin vs I A Horowitz   1-0 66 1938 ACF Congress D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 6. B Blumin vs B Dahlstrom   1-0 91 1938 39th ACF Congress. Final D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 7. B Blumin vs J Moskowitz   1-0 51 1938 ACF Congress (Final) D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. Kashdan vs B Blumin   1-0 59 1938 USA Ch fin-A D61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack 9. Harold Morton vs B Blumin   0-1 62 1938 39th ACF Congress. Final D61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack 10. Santasiere vs B Blumin 1-0 29 1939 New York USA op A46 Queen's Pawn Game 11. W Adams vs B Blumin 1-0 28 1939 40th ACF Congress. Championship C26 Vienna 12. B Blumin vs O Ulvestad   1-0 19 1939 40th ACF Congress. Championship A52 Budapest Gambit 13. B Blumin vs Fine   0-1 36 1939 ACF Congress (Championship) E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 14. M Green vs B Blumin 1-0 27 1939 USA-ch D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 15. Santasiere vs B Blumin   1-0 61 1939 40th ACF Congress. Championship A03 Bird's Opening 16. I A Horowitz vs B Blumin   1-0 30 1939 40th ACF Congress. Final C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 17. B Blumin vs G Hellman 1-0 28 1939 ACF Congress D50 Queen's Gambit Declined 18. Pinkus vs B Blumin   1-0 42 1939 40th ACF Congress. Championship C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 19. B Blumin vs Reshevsky   0-1 37 1939 40th ACF Congress. Championship D72 Neo-Grunfeld, 5.cd, Main line 20. Pinkus vs B Blumin   1-0 48 1941 New York C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed 21. H Steiner vs B Blumin   1-0 37 1941 US Open. Preliminary 2 A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 22. H Steiner vs B Blumin   ½-½ 44 1941 US Open. Championship Final A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 23. Fine vs B Blumin   ½-½ 41 1941 US Open D83 Grunfeld, Grunfeld Gambit 24. B Blumin vs Bruno Schmidt 0-1 80 1941 US Open D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 25. B Blumin vs Benko 0-1 34 1969 Atlantic Open A57 Benko Gambit  page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25

Dec-22-04    Benzol: Boris Blumin Born 29th December 1907 in St Petersburg Canadian champion in 1936 and 1937. Dec-29-08    whiteshark: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blumin Dec-29-08    whiteshark: Typo in the bio: 29th of December <1929> should be replaced by the actual year <1907 <!>>. Dec-29-08    whiteshark: Boris Blumin (29 Dec 1907 Julian calendar (11 Jan 1908), Sankt Petersburg - † 16 Feb 1998, Trenton, New Jersey) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_... Oct-23-14    ljfyffe: <In the (1942) finals of LeDain's Trans-Canada event, as it was called, Boris Blumin, an OTB Canadian Champion and salesman for the Eaton department store chain, engineered a 5/5 result....> Oct-23-14    ljfyffe: Zehr and MacDonald: The History of Correspondence Chess In Canada.

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