# Hermanis Matisons

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{{Short description|Latvian chess player (1894–1932)}}
'''Hermanis Matisons''' ({{langx|de|Herman Mattison}}; 1894, [Riga](/source/Riga) – 1932) was a [Latvia](/source/Latvia)n [chess](/source/chess) player and one of world's most highly regarded [chess master](/source/chess_master)s in the early 1930s. He was also a leading [composer](/source/Chess_composer) of [endgame studies](/source/Endgame_study). He died of [tuberculosis](/source/tuberculosis) at the age of 37.

In 1924, Matisons won the first [Latvian Chess Championship](/source/Latvian_Chess_Championship) tournament. Later that year he finished ahead of [Fricis Apšenieks](/source/Fricis_Ap%C5%A1enieks), and [Edgard Colle](/source/Edgard_Colle) to win the first [World Amateur Championship](/source/World_Amateur_Chess_Championship), which was organized in conjunction with the Paris [Olympic Games](/source/Olympic_Games), followed by [Max Euwe](/source/Max_Euwe) in 1928. Matisons played first board for Latvia at the [1931 Chess Olympiad](/source/1931_Chess_Olympiad) in [Prague](/source/Prague) and defeated [Akiba Rubinstein](/source/Akiba_Rubinstein) and [Alexander Alekhine](/source/Alexander_Alekhine), then the reigning [World Champion](/source/World_Chess_Championship).

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](/source/The_Oxford_Companion_to_Chess) | edition=2nd
 | publisher=Oxford University Press
 | isbn=0-19-280049-3
 | page=252}}

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