I found the initial "P." for Bernotas on the website 'Chess Composition in Lithuania (1921-1942)' [on WebCite] here:

https://sachmatija.puslapiai.lt/sit...

(last page; Bernotas is Number 20)

and here:

https://sachmatija.puslapiai.lt/sit...

(page 232)

Perhaps it is a slight assumption that it is the same person, though the year of his problem is 1932, so probably safe.

Birthdate: 1900
Birthplace: Birthplace: Kaunas, Kaunas City Municipality, Lithuania Death: 1950 (49-50)

Son of Adomas Birmanas and Aleksandra Birmanienė
Husband of Birmanienė (Deltuvaitė)
Father of Eugenijus Birmanas
Brother of Irene Brenner; Helen Gerbic and Eugenijus Birmantas

https://www.geni.com/people/Me%C4%8...

This is mentioned further up this page in my second posting of 29 January 2020 when I was transferring the material from the Biographer Bistro. Originally found by Tabanus; and also commented on by me in my post of 30 January 2020.

An article "Kaunas city chess championship finished" in "Tarybų Lietuva", January 1st, 1949, p.4:
"... Tournament results are:
1-2 Stankunas and Semoshka 10.5/13
3-4 Padolskis and Birmanas 9.5/13
5. Kontrimavicius 8/13
6. Vyt. Abramavicius 7.5/13

... In this tournament excelled young chess players - Semoshka, Birmanas and Kontrimavicius."

Son of Mechislovas, Eugenijus Birmanas, was born in 1930. In 1946 hi was 16 years old, in 1949 - 19 years old.
J. Birmanas = Jeugenijus (Eugenijus) Birmanas.

Apparently "Lietuvos sporto žinynas 1941-1952" have a mistake. In 1952 in Kaunas team played son of Mechislovas, Eugenijus Birmanas.

<chesshistoryinterest> Thanks so much for finding new Petrov photographs! I will be harvesting those to be sure.

<hemy, chesshistoryinterest>

I have started to add your research to the Mechislovas Birmanas profile now.

<hemy> here is the Bernotas-Disleris game- please let me know if you see any mistakes:

Petrov photos - that's great. Always pleased to help in a worthy cause if I have the time.

Stoltz vs Petrov 1936: You did give two other sources for this game here: Vladimir Petrov (kibitz #596) but they don't seem to have made it into the PGN.

Thanks for starting to put info into the Mechislovas Birmanas profile.

I have added more info and made some adjustments as per below:

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Mechislovas Birmanas was born in 1900 in Kaunas, Lithuania (part of the Russian Empire at the time). He died in 1950. He was the son of Adomas Birmanas and Aleksandra Birmanienė, and the brother of Irene Brenner, Helen Gerbic and Eugenijus Birmantas. He had a son, Eugenijus Birmanas, born in 1930 [footnote 1]. He lived in Kaunas, probably for the whole of his life.

Birmanas became the chess champion of Lithuania in 1943 by tying for first place with Arlauskas and Abramavicius with 8.5 out of 11 at the Championship tournament at Vilnius in July 1943 and winning the subsequent 3-way playoff a month later with 2.5 out of 4. He was 4-6= in the 1945 Lithuanian Championship with 6 out of 10.

His son, Eugenijus, played 4th board for Kaunas in the 1952 cities championship of Lithuania.

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I have removed the reference to his poor health [at the time of the Christmas 1943 Vilnius tournament] as this may only have been temporary at the time (eg he did reasonably well in the 1945 Lithuanian Championship).

Let me know if you (and <hemy> also) agree with this version.

I would have entered this directly into the Birmanas profile, but am not sure how to do footnotes. If you and <hemy> agree with what I have here, you could put it in, or I could if you show me how to do footnotes.

<chesshistoryinterest>

On ply count, I had not heard of that issue before!

I believe you should post that in the <chessgames forum>.

It doesn't matter what any uploader puts into the ply tag.

Chessgames.com uses a code to automatically calculate that- and the code will override whatever number you might put in the ply tag. The same system is used to determine the opening classification. No matter which opening classification you put in the tag, it makes no difference- because the chessgames.com code will automatically change the tag to what it has been set to do.

This is why <Daniel Freeman> told me there is no point filling in the ply and opening classification tags when preparing a pgn for upload.

<chesshistoryinterest> Excellent write up on Birmanas!

It would be fine with me if you entered it yourself in the editing box.

To make a footnote, simply use square parentheses.

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Example:

Footnoting was invented in 9 BCE by Eddy Footnote.[1]

<Below the bottom of this text, you list the footnote key like this>:

Most cg.com editors who write bios use the Wikipedia style- meaning that every time you use information from page 3 of "Life and Times of Eddy Footnote" you would repeat the [1] footnote number in the body of your text.

That said, editors may choose to use any footnoting system they want.

With this information, plus other newspaper items I have, plus deducing from progress scores, I arrive at:

Round 1
Spielmann - Disleris 1-0
Vistaneckis - Luckis 1-0

Round 2
Vistaneckis - Spielmann 0.5-0.5
Luckis - Disleris 1-0

Round 3
Spielmann - Luckis 0.5-0.5
Disleris - Vistaneckis 0-1

Round 4
Disleris - Spielmann 0.5-0.5
Luckis - Vistaneckis 1-0

Round 5
Luckis - Spielmann 0-1
Vistaneckis - Disleris 1-0

Round 6
Spielmann - Vistaneckis 0.5-0.5
Disleris - Luckis ??

[Rounds 5 and 6 seem to be reversed from Rounds 2 and 3; don't know colours apart from Spielmann being White in Round 6]

Luckis goes into the last round with 2.5 out of 5; Disleris with 0.5 out of 5. If I had their final scores I could deduce the result of their last-round game. I cannot find these final scores in "Rytas" or "Lietuvos aidas" newspapers. Also not on periodika.lv, or in Estonian or Finnish newspapers, nor in Mikenas' book; nor in Spielmann's article on his 1934 Baltic tour in the May/June issue (page 163) of "Weiner Schach-Zeitung". It seems odd that this final result in not better covered in Lithuanian sources given that one of their own (Vistaneckis) tied for first place with one of the top players in the world at the time.

The items I have from the "Rytas" or "Lietuvos aidas" newspapers are: "Rytas": 17 March 1934, page 9; 19 March 1934, page 7; 20 March 1934, page 2; 24 March 1934, page 9; 9 June 1934, page 9; "Lietuvos aidas": 17 March 1934, page 12; 20 March 1934, page 5; 26 March 1934, page 8. I have checked for nearby dates in these two newspapers extensively. Very surprised there don't seem to be any reports 27 March to early April 1934 (maybe Easter holidays is the problem).

<chesshistoryinterest> the Birmanas bio looks good, but this information needs to be footnoted and sourced:

<Birmanas became the chess champion of Lithuania in 1943 by tying for first place with Arlauskas and Abramavicius with 8.5 out of 11 at the Championship tournament at Vilnius in July 1943 and winning the subsequent 3-way playoff a month later with 2.5 out of 4. He was 4-6= in the 1945 Lithuanian Championship with 6 out of 10.