sentences:  In 1930, he took 2nd, behind Taubmann, in Bucharest ("Quadrangular").In 1930/31, he took 6th in Hastings ("Major"; Salo Flohr won).Baratz played twice for Romania in the Chess Olympiads; at first board (+6 –4 =5) at Hamburg 1930, and at third board (+7 –3 =7) at Prague 1931.