Jacob Carl Rosenthal was an American chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

Born in Bialystok, Poland (then Russian Empire), he became a citizen of the Netherlands. Finally, he emigrated to the United States. He lived and participated in several local chess matches in New York City (Manhattan CC vs. Franklin CC in 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and twice Rice CC vs. Brooklyn CC in 1909). He also played in a cable match New York vs. Buenos Aires in 1922.

In tournaments, he won at Manhattan CC championship 1911, won New York State-ch in 1912, took 6th at New York 1916 (Rice Memorial, preliminary, José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play...

 won), took 3rd, behind Charles Jaffe

Charles Jaffe

Charles Jaffé was a Belarusian-American chess master, of virtually Grandmaster strength at his peak in the 1910s, when he was one of the world's top players. Jaffe was also a chess writer....

 and Boris Kostić, at New York 1918 (rapid tournament), and took 3rd at New York 1921 (Morris Schapiro

Morris Schapiro

Morris Abraham Schapiro was an American investment banker and chess master.He was born in Lithuania in 1903 and came to the United States in 1907. He entered Columbia University on a Pulitzer Scholarship and led the university chess team to four national championships...

won).