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Hermanis Matisons

1894 - 1932

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Hermanis Matisons (German: Herman Mattison; 1894, Riga – 1932) was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a leading composer of endgame studies. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. In 1924, Matisons won the first Latvian Chess Championship tournament. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermanis Matisons is the 154th most popular chess player (down from 144th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Hermanis Matisons ranks 154 out of 461. Before him are Chantal Chaudé de Silans, Boško Abramović, Hermann Pilnik, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Georg Marco, and Simen Agdestein. After him are Eduard Gufeld, Sofia Polgár, Rafael Vaganian, Nicolas Rossolimo, William Lombardy, and Johann Berger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Hermanis Matisons ranks 209. Before him are Paul Costello, Pelageya Shajn, Estelle Taylor, Paul Peter Meouchi, Henry Daniell, and Nikolai Chebotaryov. After him are Corinne Griffith, Ben Nicholson, Mahmud Taymur, Albert Préjean, James P. Johnson, and Renzo De Vecchi. Among people deceased in 1932, Hermanis Matisons ranks 122. Before him are Frantz Reichel, Kliment Boyadzhiev, Ellen Churchill Semple, René Bazin, László Lukács, and Francisco Lagos Cházaro. After him are Julieta Lanteri, Giuseppe Vitali, Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, Paul Warburg, Albert Londres, and Henry M. Leland.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Hermanis Matisons ranks 154 out of 323. Before him are Bruno Habārovs (1939), Jānis Cimze (1814), Andrejs Upīts (1877), Erik Hornung (1933), Jānis Endzelīns (1873), and Kārlis Skalbe (1879). After him are Fridrikh Ermler (1898), Andris Nelsons (1978), Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948), Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838), Vija Celmins (1938), and Regīna Ezera (1930).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Latvia

Among chess players born in Latvia, Hermanis Matisons ranks 2. Before him are Mikhail Tal (1936). After him are Vladimirs Petrovs (1907), Alexei Shirov (1972), Arkadij Naiditsch (1985), Alexander Shabalov (1967), and Dana Reizniece-Ozola (1981).

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