{{Short description|Russian chess player (1843–1896)}} [[File:Mikhail Chigorin vs Andrej Ašarin 1892 Riga.jpg|thumb|Mikhail Chigorin (left) playing against Andreas Ascharin in Riga 1892.]]

'''Andreas Ascharin''' ({{langx|ru|Андрей Александрович Ашарин|Andrey Aleksandrovich Asharin}}; {{OldStyleDate|24 June|1843|12 June}} in Pärnu – {{OldStyleDate|24 December|1896|12 December}} in Riga) was a Russian chess master of Baltic German descent.

==Life== Ascharin's father was Russian and his mother was from a Baltic German family. He read law in Dorpat (now Tartu). Between 1875 and 1879, he worked in Saint Petersburg as a journalist for the ''St. Petersburger Zeitung'' and the ''St. Petersburger Herold''. He also played in local chess tournaments. In 1876, he won ahead of Mikhail Chigorin and Emanuel Schiffers. In 1877 he lost a match to Friedrich Amelung (+3 –4 =2). In 1878–1879, he took sixth place (Chigorin and Simon Alapin won).<ref>[http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/itorneifino1880.htm I tornei fino al 1880<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

From 1879, he lived in Riga where he worked as a teacher of German language at a gymnasium, and a translator of Russian literature into German. Among others, he published ''Schach-Humoresken'' (Riga 1894).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110719110811/http://www.slavistik.uni-potsdam.de/petersburg/ascharin.html content<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He was a president of the Riga Chess Club.<ref>{{citation |author1=Litmanowicz, Władysław |author2=Giżycki, Jerzy | title=Szachy od A do Z | publisher=Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa | orig-year=1986 |year=1987 | isbn= 83-217-2481-7}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.365chess.com/players/Andreas_Alexandrovi_Asharin Andreas Ascharin at 365Chess.com]

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