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Ossip Bernstein
  • Birth Name:
    Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein
  • Date of Birth:
    September 20, 1882
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Virgo
  • Place of Birth:
    Zhytomyr, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
  • Place of Death:
    French Pyrenees
  • Date of Death:
    November 30, 1962
  • Sex:
    Male

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Ossip Bernstein

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    Ossip Bernstein

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    Ossip Bernstein
    • In April–May 1914, tied for 6th-7th with Rubinstein in the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament (Preliminaries).
    • In July–August 1904, tied for 4th-5th at Coburg (14th DSB Congress).
    • In 1903/04, tied for 2nd-3rd with Rudolf Spielmann, behind Horatio Caro, at Berlin.
    • In July–August 1902, took 2nd, behind Walter John, at Hannover (the 13th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A).
    • In June 1902, won at Berlin.
    • Was a successful businessman and earned considerable wealth before losing it in the Bolshevik Revolution, earned a second that was lost in the Great Depression, and a third that was lost when France was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1940.
    • Was a chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.

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