About Nicolai Jasnogrodsky
Lived 1859 – 1914 (aged 54). Nicolai Jasnogrodsky was an American chess player.
Nicolai Jasnogrodsky (6 August 1859, Lubny – 23 April 1914, New York City) was a Russian–born American chess master.
Jasnogrodsky started to play competitive chess around 1885 in Vienna, and moved to England in the 1880s. He tied for 4-5th at Amsterdam 1889 (B tournament, Adolf Georg Olland and F. van den Berg won), and in 1890 earned the title of chess master at Amsterdam. and drew a match with Frank James Marshall (3.5 : 3.5) at New York 1898.
Jasnogrodsky died at Montefiore Home, Hospital and Country Sanitarium for Chronic Diseases. He was buried in Union Field Cemetery,
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Ukrainian-American chess player
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Nicolai Jasnogrodsky was born on 6 August 1859 in Lubny.
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Nicolai Jasnogrodsky died on 23 April 1914 in New York City.
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Nicolai Jasnogrodsky was a chess player.
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Nicolai Jasnogrodsky was American.
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