CHESS PLAYER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermanis Matisons has received more than 18,824 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermanis Matisons is the 144th most popular chess player, the 152nd most popular biography from Latvia and the 2nd most popular Latvian Chess Player.

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  • 1.40

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Hermanis Matisons ranks 144 out of 461. Before him are Simen Agdestein, Bernhard Horwitz, Horatio Caro, Florin Gheorghiu, Artur Yusupov, and Lev Alburt. After him are Gennadi Sosonko, Klaus Junge, Carl Mayet, Levente Lengyel, Mišo Cebalo, and Andrija Fuderer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Hermanis Matisons ranks 209. Before him are Albert Préjean, Raymond Schwartz, Mahmud Taymur, Roger Vercel, Alan Crosland, and Ludwig Wrede. After him are Alfred Romer, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Tommy Green, Billy Bishop, Renzo De Vecchi, and Georgy Ivanov. Among people deceased in 1932, Hermanis Matisons ranks 122. Before him are Ioannis Chrysafis, René Bazin, László Lukács, Francisco Lagos Cházaro, Friedrich Gustav Piffl, and Theo Heemskerk. After him are Julieta Lanteri, Pritilata Waddedar, Kliment Boyadzhiev, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Howard Valentine, and Charles Wallace Richmond.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Hermanis Matisons ranks 152 out of 323. Before him are Marija Naumova (1973), Andrejs Upīts (1877), Lya Mara (1897), Leonid Ostrovski (1936), Piotr Ugrumov (1961), and Aleksandr Kaleri (1956). After him are Maigonis Valdmanis (1933), Anna Brigadere (1861), Māris Verpakovskis (1979), Afanasijs Kuzmins (1947), Fridrikh Ermler (1898), and Andris Piebalgs (1957).

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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 Alexei Shirov (1972), Vladimirs Petrovs (1907), Arkadij Naiditsch (1985), Dana Reizniece-Ozola (1981), and Alexander Shabalov (1967).

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