Jacob Rosenthal

Career

Born in Białystok, Poland (then Russian Empire), he became a citizen of the Netherlands. Finally, he emigrated to the United States. He lived and participated in several local chess matches in New York City (Manhattan Central Committee vs Franklin Central Committee in 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and twice Rice Central Committee vs Brooklyn Central Committee in 1909).

He also played in a cable match New York versus

Buenos Aires in 1922.

Achievements

• In tournaments, he won at Manhattan Central Committee championship 1911, won New York State-ch in 1912, took 6th at New York 1916 (Rice Memorial, preliminary, José Raúl Capablanca won), took 3rd, behind Charles Jaffe and Boris Kostić, at New York 1918 (rapid tournament), and took 3rd at New York 1921 (Morris Schapiro won).