sentences:  In 1896, he took 2nd behind von Bardeleben and ahead of Jacques Mieses in Berlin ("Triangular"), tied for 7–8th in Nuremberg (Emanuel Lasker won), and tied for 6–7th in Budapest (Rudolf Charousek and Mikhail Chigorin tied for first).In 1897, he took 2nd behind Charousek in Berlin, and took 5th in Berlin (Bardeleben won).He took 15th in the Vienna 1898 chess tournament (Pillsbury and Tarrasch won).