Andreas Ascharin
Russian chess player
Died when: 53 years 183 days (642 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Andreas Ascharin (Russian: ?????? ????????????? ??????, Andrey Aleksandrovich Asharin; 24 June [O.S. 12 June] 1843 in Pärnu – 24 December [O.S. 12 December] 1896 in Riga) was a Baltic German-Russian chess master.
Ascharin's father was Russian, 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 1878/79 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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