Aaron Alexandre (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aaron (Albert) Alexandre (Hebrew:, around 1765/68, Hohenfeld, Franconia - 16 November 1850, London, England) was a Jewish German-French-English chess player and writer. Aaron Alexandre, a Bavarian trained as a rabbi, arrived in France in 1793. Encouraged by the French Republic's policy of religious toleration, he became a French citizen. At first, he worked as a German teacher and as mechanical inventor. Eventually, chess became his primary occupation. He tried to make a complete survey of the chess openings, publishing his findings as the Encyclop die des checs (Encyclopedia of Chess, Paris, 1837). With his book, he introduced the algebraic notation and the castling symbols O-O and O-O-O.