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Hermanis Matisons
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'''Hermanis Matisons''' (
1894 –
1932), (also known as '''Herman Mattison'''), was a
Latvian
chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early
1930s. He was also a leading
endgame composer. He died of
tuberculosis at the age of 38.
In
1924, Matisons won the first Latvian chess championship tournament.
Later that year he finished ahead of
Machgielis Euwe Euwe and
Edgard Colle Colle to win the first world amateur tournament, which was organized in conjunction with the
Paris Olympic Games.
Matisons played first board for Latvia at the
1931 Chess Olympiad in
Prague and defeated
Akiba Rubinstein Rubinstein and
Alexander Alekhine Alekhine, who was the
World Chess Championship world chess champion at that time.
Sixty of Matisons' studies were collected in the
1987 book ''Mattison's Chess Endgame Studies'' by T.G. Whitworth.
References
*{{cite book | author=Hooper, David and
Kenneth Whyld | title=The Oxford Companion To Chess | publisher=Oxford University| year=1996 | id=ISBN 0-19-280049-3}}
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