- Jacob Bernstein
Jacob Bernstein (born ? – died December 1958) was an American chess master.
Born into a Jewish family, he lived in New York City. [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/bernstein.html] He won thrice New York State Chess Championship (1920, 1921, 1922), [http://www.monmouth.com/~colonel/chess/nyschamps.html] and shared 1st with
Herman Steiner in 1929 but lost a tiebreak to him. [http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/wall/art_09.htm]He also tied for 8-9th at New York 1913 (Rice tournament,
José Raúl Capablanca won), [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1913nyrice.htm] tied for 5-6th at New York 1915 (Capablanca won), [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/marshall/tournaments/index.html] tied for 7-8th at New York 1916 (Rice tournament, Capablanca won), [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1916nyork.htm] and lost a match toAbraham Kupchik (1.5 : 3.5) at New York 1916. [http://www.chessmetrics.com]After
World War I , he tied for 3-6th at New York 1922 (Edward Lasker won), [http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/resz_s.htm] took 13th at Carlsbad 1923, [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter06.html] and tied for 7-10th at Pasadena 1932 (Alexander Alekhine won). [http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/acb/art_01.htm]References
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