# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-finegold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:11:04.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-finegold"
name: "Ben Finegold"
slug: "ben-finegold"
description: "Benjamin Philip Finegold is an American chess grandmaster and YouTuber/Twitch streamer. He had previously been nicknamed the \"strongest International Master in the United States\" until receiving his Grandmaster (GM) title in 2009."
tagline: "American chess grandmaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2013_08_Ben_Finegold_(9430861911)_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1969-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.59
  momentum:             3.170731707317073
  historical:           11.24684133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ben_finegold"
    handle:    "ben_finegold"
  - platform:  "TWITCH"
    url:       "https://www.twitch.tv/GMBenjaminFinegold"
    handle:    "GMBenjaminFinegold"
sources:
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    title: "Ben Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Finegold"
    title: "Ben Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Finegold"
    title: "Ben Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Finegold"
    title: "Benjamin Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Benjamin Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Finegold"
    title: "Benjamin Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Benjamin Finegold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Файнголд, Бен"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump