Editing Hermanis Matisons

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{{short description|Latvian chess player}}
'''Hermanis Matisons''' ({{langx|de|Herman Mattison}}; 1894, [[Riga]] – 1932) was a [[Latvia]]n [[chess]] player and one of world's most highly regarded [[chess master]]s in the early 1930s. He was also a leading [[Chess composer|composer]] of [[Endgame study|endgame studies]]. 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 [[Fricis Apšenieks]], and [[Edgard Colle]] to win the first [[World Amateur Chess Championship|World Amateur Championship]], which was organized in conjunction with the Paris [[Olympic Games]], followed by [[Max Euwe]] in 1928. Matisons played first board for Latvia at the [[1931 Chess Olympiad]] in [[Prague]] and defeated [[Akiba Rubinstein]] and [[Alexander Alekhine]], then the reigning [[World Chess Championship|World Champion]].

Sixty of Matisons' endgame studies were collected in the 1987 book ''Mattison's Chess Endgame Studies'' by T.G. Whitworth.

==References==
*{{citation
 | last=Hooper | first=David | authorlink=David Vincent Hooper
 | last2=Whyld | first2=Kenneth | authorlink2=Kenneth Whyld
 | year=1992 | title=[[The Oxford Companion to Chess]] | edition=2nd
 | publisher=Oxford University Press
 | isbn=0-19-280049-3
 | page=252}}

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[[Category:Chess players from Riga]]
[[Category:People from Riga county]]
[[Category:Latvian Jews]]
[[Category:Jewish chess players]]
[[Category:Chess composers]]
[[Category:20th-century Latvian chess players]]
[[Category:Chess Olympiad competitors]]
[[Category:Tuberculosis deaths in Latvia]]
[[Category:20th-century deaths from tuberculosis]]

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