Andreas Ascharin

Andreas Ascharin (Andrej Ašarin) (1843, Pärnu, Estonia – 1896, Riga, Latvia) was a Baltic-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 6th (Chigorin and Simon Alapin won). [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/itorneifino1880.htm 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). [ [http://www.slavistik.uni-potsdam.de/petersburg/ascharin.html content ] ] He was a president of the Riga Chess Club. [Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy| title=Szachy od A do Z | publisher=Wydawnictwo "Sport i Turystyka" Warszawa | year=1986, 1987 | id=ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1. A-M), ISBN 83-217-2745-x (2. N-Z).]

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