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City College of New New York
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Sidney Bernstein
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He played board two, behind Reuben Fine, on the victorious City College of New York team in the 1931-1932 Intercollegiate championships. Bernstein was a participant in eight United States. Chess Championship events (1936, 1938, 1940, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1959 and 1961). His career was well chronicled in his book Combat: My 50 Years at the Chessboard (New York, 1977), but he was an infrequent writer on the game and was deeply involved in only two other volumes.
In the late 1930s he co-edited with Reinfeld a book on the Kemeri 1937 chess tournament, and in 1947 the two collaborated on a revision of James Mason’s The Art of Chess.
Top players that he scored wins against were Donald Byrne, multiple wins against Arnold Denker, multiple wins against Frank James Marshall, Edmar Mednis, and Sammy Reshevsky, amongst others
Achievements
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He tied for 2nd-4th in Marshall Chess Club Championship at New York 1930/31 (Arthur Dake won), tied for 6-7th in New York State Chess Championship at Rome 1931 (Fred Reinfeld won). He took 11th in the American Chess Federation Congress (United States Open Chess Championship) at Philadelphia 1936 (Israel Albert Horowitz won). He played thrice in Ventnor City, as he shared 1st in 1940, tied for 5-7th (Jacob Levin won) in 1941, and tied for 3rd-6th (Daniel Yanofsky won) in 1942. He tied for 1st with Reinfeld in Manhattan Chess Club Championship at New York 1942, and took 8th in Manhattan Central Committee in 1955 (Max Pavey won).
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United States