Augusts Strautmanis
Number of games in database: 6
Years covered: 1928 to 1951
Overall record: +1 -4 =1 (25.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
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AUGUSTS STRAUTMANIS (born Jul-11-1907, died Jan-08-1990) Latvia [what is this?] Augusts Strautmanis was born on July 11, 1907 in Riga. He studied at Riga City Gymnasium and afterwards in University of Latvia. After graduating, he became a professional advocate. He was interested in chess-playing starting from his early childhood when he was taught by his father. He participated in the Chess Olympiad in 1928 in Hague, where Latvia as an independent state participated for the first time. Young Augusts played at the second table and won a half of the games. In 1936, he married and had a large family of four children, but this happy life was destroyed by Soviet occupation and World War II. Augusts did not play serious chess again until in the post war chess championships of Soviet Latvia where he gained good results: in 1946, the second place; in 1948, he became a champion of Latvia; and in 1949, he tied for third place. He actively participated in championships of Soviet Latvia and trained the youth section of chess-players thus encouraging the development of the next Latvian chess player generation.

page 1 of 1; 6 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Strautmanis vs L Palau 0-1 20 1928 Olympiad C44 King's Pawn Game 2. H Mueller vs A Strautmanis   1-0 34 1928 Olympiad A28 English 3. G Kroone vs A Strautmanis 0-1 43 1928 Olympiad C70 Ruy Lopez 4. A Strautmanis vs Koltanowski 0-1 31 1928 den Haag C41 Philidor Defense 5. E Hellmann vs A Strautmanis   1-0 32 1928 Olympiad A02 Bird's Opening 6. A Strautmanis vs Tal ½-½ 32 1951 URS E17 Queen's Indian

Jul-11-09    wordfunph: 1st to kibitz! A draw with legendary Mikhail Tal wow! Happy Birthday Master August Strautmanis!

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