Andreas Ascharin (; in Pärnu – in Riga) was a Russian chess master of Baltic German descent.
Life
Ascharin's father was
Russians and his mother was from a
Baltic German family. He read law in
Tartu (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).
[ I tornei fino al 1880]
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).[ content] He was a president of the Riga Chess Club.
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