Ossip Bernstein Samuilovich

(born 1882), assistant barrister in Moscow. Was isolated for the first time in a tournament in Hanover in 1902, where he took second prize. At the 3 rd All-Russia tournament in Kiev was the second prize (first - Chigorin) by dividing Shlehtorom fourth and fifth prizes in Berlin in 1905, in Stockholm in 1906. divided the first and second prizes with Schlechter and in Ostend in 1907. - The first and second prizes with Rubinstein. Talented game Bernstein found especially in the difficult and complex provisions of the mid-parties, where there are no attacks, but we need to invent, to create out of nothing. Bernstein remarkably fast and successful plays in the simul against 30 - 40 persons, and in Berlin, played even against 80.