About Andreas Ascharin
Lived 1843 – 1896 (aged 53). Andreas Ascharin was a Russian chess player, author, translator, writer, journalist and teacher.
Mikhail Chigorin (left) playing against Andreas Ascharin in Riga 1892.
Andreas Ascharin (; in Pärnu – in Riga) was a Russian chess master of Baltic German descent.
Life Ascharin's father was Russian and his mother was from a Baltic German family. 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 Herold. 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 1878–1879, he took sixth place (Chigorin and Simon Alapin won).
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). He was a president of the Riga Chess Club.
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Who was Andreas Ascharin?
Baltic German-Russian chess player (1843-1896)
When was Andreas Ascharin born?
Andreas Ascharin was born on 24 June 1843 in Pärnu.
When did Andreas Ascharin die?
Andreas Ascharin died on 24 December 1896 in Riga.
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Andreas Ascharin was a chess player, author, translator, writer, journalist and teacher.
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Andreas Ascharin was Russian.
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