Andreas Ascharin
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Andreas Ascharin (Andrej Ašarin) (1843, Pärnu, Estonia – 1896, Riga, Latvia) was an Estonian–Latvian chess master.
He read law in Dorpat (now Tartu). Between 1875 and 1879, he worked in Saint Petersburg as a journalist for the St. Petersburger Zeitung and the St. Petersburger Herald. He also played in local chess tournaments. In 1876 he won ahead of Mikhail Chigorin and Emanuel Schiffers. In 1877 he lost a match to Friedrich Amelung (+3 –4 =2). In 1878/79 he took 6th (Chigorin and Simon Alapin won).[1]
From 1879 he lived in Riga where he worked as a teacher of German language at a gymnasium, and a translator of Russian literature into German. Among others, he published Schach-Humoresken (Riga 1894).[2] He was a president of the Riga Chess Association.[3]
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