Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Augusts Strautmanis ya fara wasan chess tun yana karami a karkashin jagorancin mahaifinsa. Tuni a cikin 1926 a Babban Taron Chess na Latvia na Biyu, sabon ɗan wasan chess ya sami matsayi na huɗu (bayan Fricis Apšenieks, Teodors Bergs da Vladimirs Petrovs) kuma an haɗa shi cikin ƙungiyar Latvia ta farko mai zaman kanta wacce ta halarci taron.
2nd Chess Olympiad a cikin Hague a 1928. Augusts Strautmanis ya taka leda a karo na biyu kuma ya sami maki 7.5 daga cikin 16 mai yiwuwa (+ 6 -7 = 3). A cikin 1938/39 a Gasar Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Was A cikin shekarun Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu ya lashe Gasar Riga ta 1943, ya raba 3rd <unk> 6th a Gasar Chess ta Latvia a wannan shekarar. Hakanan, a cikin shekarun bayan yaƙin, Augusts Strautmanis ya ci gaba da samun nasarar shiga gasar zakarun Latvia <unk> bayan matsayi na biyu a 1946 (Alexander Koblencs ya ci shi) ya zama Gwarzon Latvia na 1948 (bayan ya ci ƙarin gwagwarmaya tare da Igor Zhdanov). A wasan kusa da na karshe na gasar zakarun USSR a shekarar 1948 a Riga, Augusts Strautmanis ya wakilci kungiyar Latvia. A cikin 1949, a gasar zakarun Latvia har yanzu ya raba matsayi na 3 <unk> 4th, amma a karo na ƙarshe Augusts Strautmanis ya buga wasan karshe a gasar zakarun Latvia na 1951. A cikin shekaru masu zuwa, Augusts Strautmanis bai shiga cikin manyan gasa ba, amma bayan buɗe Makarantar Wasanni a Gundumar Talsi a 1954, ya zama mai horar da sashin chess.