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Alexander Bernstein

Number of games in database: 13
Years covered: 1925 to 1929
Overall record: +6 -7 =0 (46.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN
(born May-11-1902, died Apr-20-1938, 35 years old) Russia

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Alexander Solomonovich Bernstein (aka. Bernshteyn), born Bobruysk, Belarus, Russian Empire; died Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Moscow chess player of the first category. Shared 5th place in the Moscow Championship in 1926 (11 of 17, +9 -4 = 4) and shared 3rd place at the 9th Moscow Championship in 1928 (11 of 17, +10 -5 = 2), behind Boris Verlinsky and Vladimir Nenarokov. In the Leningrad-Moscow match of 1927 he scored 1-1/2 out of 2 against M. N. Shebarshin. After the USSR championship in 1929, he moved away from chess.

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https://ru.openlist.wiki/%D0%91%D0%...
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Last updated: 2024-08-29 23:06:22

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Bernstein vs S Nemlikher  1-0251925Ch Moscow (minor)B03 Alekhine's Defense
2. A Bernstein vs N Grigoriev  0-1371926Moscow ChampionshipB15 Caro-Kann
3. K Rosenkrantz vs A Bernstein  0-1561926Moscow ChampionshipB84 Sicilian, Scheveningen
4. A Bernstein vs N Riumin 0-1291928Moscow-chC13 French
5. Panov vs A Bernstein  1-0441928Moscow-chA46 Queen's Pawn Game
6. I Kan vs A Bernstein  1-0541928Moscow-chA70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
7. A Bernstein vs A S Sergeev 1-0271928Moscow-chC33 King's Gambit Accepted
8. A Bernstein vs N I Grekov  1-0331928Moscow-chB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
9. A Bernstein vs A Iglitsky  1-0321928Moscow-chA04 Reti Opening
10. A Bernstein vs V Sozin  0-1261929USSR ChampionshipC33 King's Gambit Accepted
11. A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs A Bernstein 1-0291929USSR ChampionshipB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
12. Panov vs A Bernstein  1-0491929USSR ChampionshipB46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
13. A Bernstein vs N Sorokin 1-0241929USSR ChampionshipC17 French, Winawer, Advance
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Jun-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Another tough nut for chess historians.
Jun-15-13  whiteshark: He played in Section 1 of the quarterfinals of the 6th USSR Championship, 1929 Oct 2-20, in Odessa and finished shared last place with 3/8 (+3, -5).

http://www.rogerpaige.webspace.virg...

Jun-15-13  whiteshark: He played the 9th (Soviet) City Championship, Moscow 1928, and finished 3rd-4th with 11/17 points.

http://www.rogerpaige.webspace.virg...

Jun-15-13  whiteshark: and he played the 7th (Soviet) City Championship, Moscow 1926, and finished 5-6th with 11/17 points.

http://www.rogerpaige.webspace.virg... What does the A.<(sic)> S. Bernstein mean/stand for?

Jun-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <whiteshark> Could it be Ossip S. Bernstein?

http://kennethstubbsart.com/otherwo...
http://books.google.no/books?id=hmB...

Jun-15-13  Karpova: Just an educated guess, but I can hardly imagine Ossip then still participating in regional Soviet Tournaments as he was a successful lawyer in France and also much too strong for such meagre results.
Jun-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <Karpova> Are you sure it's regional?

What does "(Soviet) City Championship" mean. Anyway Ossip Bernstein has no other games from 1926, 1928 and 1929.

Jun-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Well the games we have here is from the USSR quarterfinals (http://www.rogerpaige.webspace.virg...) where he ended last. So I guess <Karpova> is right. Even he retired from chess in 1907, as Larsen was told.
Jun-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: http://www.chesspro.ru/_events/2010...

In the first preliminary group he (Yakov S Vilner) shared last place with the Moscow pervokategornik A. Bernshteyn (3 points out of a possible 8).

pervo = first

Jun-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: I suspect that the two (Soviet) events were simply the Moscow City Championship.

Gaige gives "A. S. Bernstein", b. 1902 in Bobriusk, Mogilev, URS, but no death date. That would be current-day Babruysk, in the Mogilev Region of Belarus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babruysk

If it were Ossip Bernstein, his poor showing at Odessa 1929 could be attributed to nearly being executed there a decade earlier. Enough to make anyone nervous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_...

Assuming, of course, that Wikipedia has the story right.

Jul-23-17  Eagle41257: Bernshteyn A.S. - Moscow chess player of the first category. Participant of the championships of Moscow in 1926 (11 of 17, +9 -4 = 4, 5-6 places) and 1928 (11 of 17, +10 -5 = 2, 3-4 places). In the Leningrad-Moscow match of 1927 he scored 1½ out of 2 against M.N. Shebarshin. After the USSR championship in 1929, he moved away from chess.

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