Ia tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Na manumalo o ia, i luma o Nicolas Rossolimo ma Vitaly Halberstadt, i le 8th Paris City Chess Championship i le 1932. Na taalo Dr. Oscar Blum i le Folkestone i le 1933. E leʻi auai o ia i le 5th Chess Olympiad
ae i le "General Congress", na faaiʻu ai lona lua, e ʻafa le togi i tua o Eugene Znosko-Borovsky.