sentences:  He scored 7/13 in the Leningrad National tournament in May 1934 for 8th place, as Ilya Rabinovich won.In the 1934 Soviet Championship at Leningrad (URS-ch09), he scored 10.5/19 for a tied 5th-8th place; Grigory Levenfish and Ilya Rabinovich won.He earned a place in the 1935 Moscow International tournament, the strongest Soviet event since 1925, and finished with a very good even score of 9.5/19, as Botvinnik and Salo Flohr won.