Ossip Samoilovitch Bernstein, (1882 to 1962), born in Imperial Russia in 1882 to a family of Jewish heritage, his family grew up in the anti-semitic atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. He was one of the worlds top 10 chess masters in the world from about 1903 to World War I. During the Great War, he fled the country to France and dropped out of chess until the 1930s. Then he performed creditably and even drew a match with the then World Chess Champion and fellow emigré Alexander Alekhine +1 -1 =2. When FIDE introduced official titles in 1950, Bernstein was awarded the International Grandmaster title. 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... From left, a white king, black rook and queen, white pawn, black knight, and white bishop. ... A chess master is a chess player of such skill that he can nearly always beat players of the general strength found in chess clubs, who themselves typically can nearly always prevail against the level of play generally possessed by the average player in the general population. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... The 1984 World Chess Championship was between Anatoly Karpov (left) and Garry Kasparov (right). ... Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (sometimes spelled Aljechin) (in Russian, Александр Александрович Але́хин), ( October 31 or November 1, 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a chess master, one of the great world chess champions. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... The title International Grandmaster is awarded to superb chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. It is a lifetime title, in chess literature usually abbreviated as GM or IGM (this is in contrast to WGM for Woman Grandmaster and IM for International Master). ...

He had level lifetime scores against such outstanding players as the second World Chamption Emmanuel Lasker (+2 -2 =1), Akiba Rubinstein (+1 -1 =7), Aron Nimzovitsch (+1 -1 =4), Mikhail Chigorin (+1 -1 =0) and Salo Flohr (=3). However, Bernstein seemed tailor-made for the third World Champion José Raúl Capablanca, who beat him in three outstanding brilliancies and allowed only one draw from 1911–1914, the only time they played. Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player and mathematician, born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland). ... Akiba Rubinstein (born 12 December 1882, died 15 March 1961 in Antwerp) was a brilliant Polish chess master and a famous grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Mikhail Chigorin (12 November 1850 - 25 January 1908) was a leading Russian chess player and the first grandmaster from Russia. ... Salo Flohr (November 21, 1908 - July 18, 1983) was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century. ... José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera ( November 19, 1888 - March 8, 1942) was a Cuban world-class chess master in the early to mid twentieth century. ...

He earned a doctorate in Law at Heidelberg in 1906, and was an outstanding businessman. He earned a fortune before losing it in the Bolshevik Revolution, earned a second that was lost in the Great Depression, and a third that was lost when France was invaded by Nazi Germany. The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ... The Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in 1929 and bottomed in 1933. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... The Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. ...

His name is German for amber. German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... AMBER (an acronym for Assisted Model Building and Energy Refinement) is a force field for molecular dynamics developed by Peter Kollmans group in the University of California, San Francisco. ...