Joel Benjamin

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Joel Benjamin
Joel Benjamin

Joel Benjamin (born March 11, 1964) is a chess Grandmaster.

Joel Benjamin is the top rated active chess player who was born in the United States. He was the US Chess Champion in 1987, 1997, and 2000. He was hired as a consultant by IBM to help with the Deep Blue chess computer that defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

As of the October 2006 rating supplement Benjamin had a United States Chess Federation rating of 2646, ranking him 14th best among American chess players.

He is a native of Brooklyn, New York and grew up in the Marine Park neighborhood there.

Here is a scintillating game that Benjamin won against the late grandmaster Eduard Gufeld (moves given in algebraic notation): Benjamin-Gufeld, U.S. Open, Hawaii 1998 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Nc6 7.Qd2 e6 8.Be2 Be7 9.O-O O-O 10.b3 Qa5 11.Bb2 Rd8 12.Rfd1 b5 13.cxb5 axb5 14.a3 Bb7 15.b4 Qb6 16.Qe1 Ba6 17.Qf1 Rab8 18.Rac1 d5 19.exd5 exd5 20.Na4 bxa4 21.Bxa6 Ne4 22.Bd3 Bd6 23.Rc2 Bf4 24.g3 Bh6 25.Re2 f5 26.Qh3 Rf8 27.Bb1 Rbe8 28.Ba2 Ne7 29.Ne5 Qb5 30.Rxe4 fxe4 31.Qe6+ Kh8 32.Qxh6 Nf5 33.Ng6+ Kg8 34.Rxd5 1-0 [1]

Preceded by
Yasser Seirawan		 United States Chess Champion
1987 (with Nick de Firmian)		 Succeeded by
Michael Wilder
Preceded by
Alex Yermolinsky		 United States Chess Champion
1997		 Succeeded by
Nick de Firmian
Preceded by
Boris Gulko		 United States Chess Champion
2000–2001 (with Alexander Shabalov and Yasser Seirawan		 Succeeded by
Larry Christiansen


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