Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Augusts Strautmanis malitere igwu egwu n'oge ọ bụ nwata n'okpuru nduzi nke nna ya. Ugbua na 1926 na Latvian Chess Congress nke Abụọ, onye ọkpụkpọ egwuregwu chess ọhụrụ meriri ebe nke anọ dị elu (mgbe Fricis Apšenieks, Teodors Bergs na Vladimirs Petrovs) ma tinye ya na ndị otu Latvian mbụ nọọrọ onwe ha nke sonyere na
2nd Chess Olympiad na Hague na 1928. Augusts Strautmanis gbara bọọlụ nke abụọ wee nweta akara 7.5 n'ime ihe 16 enwere ike (+6 -7 =3). Na 1938/39 na Latvian First Speed Chess Championship, ebe ndị sonyere 1319 sonyere na ọkwa dị iche iche, Augusts Strautmanis ghọrọ onye mmeri. N'ime afọ nke Agha Worldwa nke Abụọ ọ meriri asọmpi Riga nke 1943, kesara ebe nke atọ na nke isii na Latvian Chess Championship nke otu afọ ahụ. Ọzọkwa, n'afọ ndị agha gachara, Augusts Strautmanis gara n'ihu na-aga nke ọma na Latvian Chess Championships <unk> mgbe nke abụọ gachara na 1946 (Alexander Koblencs meriri ya) ọ ghọrọ onye mmeri Latvian nke 1948 (mgbe o meriri ọgụ ọzọ na Igor Zhdanov). N'asọmpi ndị otu USSR nke ọkara-ikpeazụ nke 1948 na Riga, Augusts Strautmanis nọchitere anya ndị otu Latvia. N'afọ 1949, na asọmpi Latvian ọ ka kesara ebe nke atọ na nke anọ, mana oge ikpeazụ Augusts Strautmanis gbara na asọmpi Latvian Championship nke 1951. N'afọ ndị sochirinụ, Augusts Strautmanis esoghị na asọmpi ndị dị mkpa, mana mgbe emechara ụlọ akwụkwọ egwuregwu na Talsi District na 1954, ọ ghọrọ onye nkuzi nke ngalaba egwuregwu chess.