Iosif (Josef) Mendelssohn (? – ?) was a Romanian

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master. At the beginning of his career, he took 7th at

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1913 and tied for 4-5th at Kaschau 1918, both in B tournaments. After

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, Mendelssohn played in many tournaments in

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. He took 5th in 1924 ( Sigmund Herland won), took 3rd (''Quadrangular'', Alexandru Tyroler won) and shared 1st with Herland in 1925, tied for 4-6th in

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(Tyroler won) and tied for 7-8th (Wechsler won) in 1927, took 5th (Taubmann won) and took 3rd (Herland and Wechsler won) in 1928, shared 1st with Wechsler and tied for 3rd-4th (Gudju won) in 1929, took 5th (

Abraham Baratz Abraham Baratz (14 September 1895, Bessarabia – 1975, Paris) was a Romanian–French chess master. History In 1924, Baratz took 2nd, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, in Paris. In 1925, he tied for 1st with Vitaly Halberstadt in the 1st Paris City ...

won), took 2nd (behind Herland), took 3rd (''Quadrangular'', Taubmann won), and finally won in 1930. He also took 4th at Jassy ( Iaşi) 1929 (ROM-ch, Tyroler won), and took 6th at

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1930 (ROM-ch, János Balogh won). Mendelssohn played for Romania in 2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad at

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1926, and won team bronze medal there.

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