Career
Jasnogrodsky started to play competitive chess around 1885 in Vienna, and moved to England in the 1880s. Jasnogrodsky became part of the chess fraternity of the Simpson"s-in-the-Strand by 1891 and made a name for himself as a skilled simultaneous and blindfold player. He drew a match with Bird (75: 75) at London 1893.
In the summer of 1893 Jasnogrodsky came to the United States, attracted by the announcements of the Columbian Chess Congress.
He arrived in New York on an Arizona steamship on August 11. The Congress was not held due to the lack of sufficient funds, but Jasnogrodsky, like other masters, remained in the New World.
He developed the Jasnogrodsky Defense against the Rice Gambit (1e4 e5 2f4 exf4 3Nf3 g5 4h4 g4 5Ne5 Nf6 6Bc4 d5 7exd5 Bd6 8O-O Bxe5 9Re1 Qe7 10c3 Nh5). Jasnogrodsky died at Montefiore Home, Hospital and Country Sanitarium for Chronic Diseases.