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Aaron (Albert) Alexandre ((ヘブライ語:אהרון אלכסנדר), around 1765/68 in Hohenfeld, Franconia – 16 November 1850 in 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.〔Saint-Amant (Fournier de ), ''Nécrologie: A. Alexandre'', La Régence, 1st ser., 3, no. 1 (January 1851): 3–13.〕 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 ''Encyclopédie des échecs'' (''Encyclopedia of Chess'', Paris, 1837). With his book, he introduced the algebraic notation and the castling symbols O-O and O-O-O. He continued with a survey of endgame analyses and a compilation of nearly two thousand chess problems, which he published in 1846 as ''Collection des plus beaux Problèmes d'Echecs'', Paris, and simultaneously in English and German translations: ''Beauties of Chess'', London, and ''Praktische Sammlung bester Schachspiel-Probleme'', Leipzig.〔(Knight's Tour Notes, Part Cb: Chronology 1800 – 1899 )〕 Both books were accepted as standard reference collections, demonstrating Alexandre’s great technical knowledge. In chess as in his other activities, "he preferred erudition to performance".〔(Crescendo of the Virtuoso "ch1" )〕 In 1838, he won a match against Howard Staunton in London.〔David Hooper, Ken Whyld, The Oxford companion to chess (1984), page 326〕 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aaron Alexandre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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