# Levi Benima
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{{Short description|Dutch chess player (1838–1922)}}
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| full_name = Levi Benima
| country = [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands)
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1838|5|11}}
| birth_place = [Nieuweschans](/source/Nieuweschans), Netherlands
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1922|2|3|1838|5|11}}
| death_place = [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam), Netherlands
| title = Chess master
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| yearsactive = 1878–1898
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'''Levi Benima''' (11 May 1838, [Nieuweschans](/source/Nieuweschans)[[http://www.levie-kanes.com/new-website/famtree/f_566.htm#4 Family Tree]levie-kanes.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019133650/http://www.levie-kanes.com/new-website/famtree/f_566.htm#4 |date=19 October 2007 }}] – 3 February 1922, Amsterdam) was a Dutch [chess](/source/chess) master who twice won the [Dutch Championship](/source/Dutch_Chess_Championship), in 1881 in The Hague and in 1883 in Rotterdam.[{{Cite web|url=http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060414132700/http://www.chessmetrics.com/|url-status=dead|title=Welcome to the Chessmetrics site|archive-date=14 April 2006|website=www.chessmetrics.com}}]
In other tournaments, he took 2nd at The Hague 1878 ([A. Polak Daniels](/source/A._Polak_Daniels) won),[{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1851-99/1878%20Den%20Haag%20.htm |title=Den Haag |access-date=28 March 2008 |archive-date=29 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329020358/http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1851-99/1878%20Den%20Haag%20.htm |url-status=dead }}]
tied for 3rd-4th at Gouda 1880 ([Henry Edward Bird](/source/Henry_Edward_Bird) won), took 3rd at The Hague 1882 ([Christiaan Messemaker](/source/Christiaan_Messemaker) won), took 3rd at Gouda 1884 ([Christiaan Messemaker](/source/Christiaan_Messemaker) won), took 3rd at The Hague 1885 ([Dirk van Foreest](/source/Dirk_van_Foreest) won), shared 2nd at Utrecht 1886 (D. van Foreest won), took 5th at Rotterdam 1888 ([Rudolf Loman](/source/Rudolf_Loman) won), tied for 4-5th at Groningen 1893 ([Arnold van Foreest](/source/Arnold_van_Foreest) won), tied for 3rd-4th at Rotterdam 1894 (Loman won), took 3rd at Groningen 1896 (A. van Foreest won), and took 11th at The Hague 1898 ([Jan Diderik Tresling](/source/Jan_Diderik_Tresling) won).[{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archivedate=2007-07-04 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's ''Chess Tournament Crosstables'', An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01]
Benima was a peddler by profession when he married Meike Engers in 1866 in [Winschoten](/source/Winschoten). In 1874 he joined or perhaps co-founded the local chess club "Van der Linde", one of the three oldest extant chess clubs in the Netherlands.[Niemeyer, [https://web.archive.org/web/20091013194913/http://www.geocities.com/scvanderlinde/tot1907.html History of Chess Club Van der Linde] (in Dutch)] He was the only Dutchman to have a positive record against [Dirk van Foreest](/source/Dirk_van_Foreest) in the latter's heyday in the 1880s (+3−2=2).[[http://www.schaakclubutrecht.nl/histdirkforeest.html Dirk en Arnold van Foreest], with a picture including Benima (in Dutch)] His son Fred Benima (born 14 March 1876 in Winschoten) became an international tournament player as well.
==Benima Defence==
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A line in the [Scotch Gambit](/source/Scotch_Gambit) (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Be7) named after Levi Benima (although played by [Johann Löwenthal](/source/Johann_L%C3%B6wenthal) in 1856) that has an affinity with the [Hungarian Defense](/source/Hungarian_Defense) (i.e. equally reached by 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 3.d4 exd4).[{{citation
| author-link=Hooper & Whylde
| year=1992
| title=Oxford Companion to Chess
| publisher=Oxford University Press
| isbn=0-19-866164-9
| page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000hoop/page/35 35]
| url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000hoop/page/35
}}]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.newinchess.com/Benima__Levi-ip-75803.html Levi Benima - Chessgames - New In Chess] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524064511/http://www.newinchess.com/Benima__Levi-ip-75803.html |date=24 May 2011 }}
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Category:1838 births
Category:1922 deaths
Category:Dutch Jews
Category:Dutch chess players
Category:Jewish Dutch sportspeople
Category:Jewish chess players
Category:People from Oldambt (municipality)
Category:Sportspeople from Groningen (province)
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