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Ben Finegold was born on 6 September, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American chess grandmaster (born 1969). Discover Ben Finegold's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?
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His wife is Karen Boyd
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Ben Finegold Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ben Finegold worth at the age of 54 years old? Ben Finegold’s income source is mostly from being a successful Grandmaster. He is from United States. We have estimated Ben Finegold's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Benjamin Philip Finegold (born September 6, 1969) is an American chess grandmaster and YouTuber/Twitch streamer.
Finegold graduated high school in June 1986 at the age of 16.
Afterward, he moved to Columbus, Ohio, to pursue chess.
Finegold said he had played in hundreds of tournament games a year when he was young: "I loved chess and if I lost it did not matter to me. That's the main thing you have to do to get better at chess – if you lose hundreds of games in a row, that's OK."
Finegold has been a vegetarian since 1986.
In July 1988, Finegold moved to Brussels, Belgium, with Gina Lynne LoSasso, one of the top female players in the U.S. Finegold and Gina married on January 1989 in Hastings, England.
They have a son, Spencer Finegold, who is a chess National Master.
He met his second wife, Kelly, on the Internet Chess Club.
Finegold received the U.S. Chess Trust's Samford fellowship in 1993.
Finegold tied for first place in the 1994 (Chicago, Illinois) and 2007 (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) U.S. Open Chess Championships.
Finegold has played in nine U.S. Chess Championships: 1994 (Key West, Florida), 1999 (Salt Lake City, Utah), 2002 (Seattle, Washington), 2005 (La Jolla, California), 2006 (San Diego, California), 2008 (Tulsa, Oklahoma), 2010 (Saint Louis, Missouri), 2011 (Saint Louis, Missouri), and 2013 (Saint Louis, Missouri).
In 2000, Finegold co-authored a chess book with chess master Bob Ciaffone, titled Smith–Morra Gambit Finegold Defense.
They married in March 2001 and have a daughter, Erum.
He is currently living with his third wife, Karen Boyd, a chess player with a background in programming.
He tied for first (and achieved a grandmaster norm) in the 2002 World Open (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and also tied for first in the 2005 and 2008 National Open Chess Championships (Las Vegas, Nevada).
He had previously been nicknamed the "strongest International Master in the United States" until receiving his Grandmaster (GM) title in 2009.
Finegold became a USCF Master at the age of 14, Life Master (USCF) at 15, Senior Master (USCF) at 16, International Master (FIDE) at 20, and Grandmaster (FIDE) at 40.
Finegold was recipient of the U.S. Chess Trust's Samford fellowship.
In addition to filming and streaming chess topics on social media sites, he has been active in giving live tournament commentary, lectures, and writing.
He was the grandmaster-in-residence of the Saint Louis Chess Club, and co-founded the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta.
Finegold was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a chess family, the son of chess master Ron Finegold and his wife Rita.
He learned the rules of chess at age 5 and received his first USCF rating at age 6.
Stuart Rachels says when he was twelve he saw Ben Finegold and his father Ron hustling in a chess club at Manhattan, offering 8:1 money bets on one-minute-per-player bullet games.
In September 2009, he earned his third and final grandmaster norm at the SPICE Cup in Lubbock, Texas.
Finegold's USCF rating has been "as high as 2662, at which point he was neck and neck with GM Larry Christiansen for the distinction of being the highest rated American born chess player in the country."
Finegold has been a live commentator at the U.S. Chess Championship, U.S. Junior Chess Championship, Sinquefield Cup, and Chess World Cup. He also frequently gave lively and often humorous instructional lectures at the Saint Louis Chess Club (formerly the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis).
He was the grandmaster-in-residence of the Saint Louis Chess Club until August 14, 2012, where he filmed a number of chess YouTube videos.
He was ranked as one of the top 40 players in the United States on the August 2013 USCF rating list.
In 2017, Finegold and his wife Karen co-founded the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta.
Finegold's lectures are available on the YouTube channels of the Saint Louis Chess Club as well as the channel of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta and on Twitch.
As of 2021, Finegold streams chess five to six times a week, particularly on Twitch under the handle "itsBenAndKaren"; his account currently has over 131,000 followers.
Highlights and clips from his Twitch streams are regularly uploaded to his Youtube channel with the same name.
As of October 2022, his Youtube channel has over 110,000 subscribers.
He also has a Twitter account, with more than 21,900 followers as of March 2023.
As of June 2023, Finegold has appeared five times as a guest on the Perpetual Chess Podcast hosted by National Master Ben Johnson.
Finegold was a student at Wayne State University.
He became a vegan as a New Year's resolution in 2018.