How to Pronounce Alphonse Goetz
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Mar 15, 1865 Strasbourg, France Died on 12 Jul 1934 (aged 69)
French chess player
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About Alphonse Goetz
- Alphonse Goetz (aka A.
- Geoffroy-Dausay) (15 March 1865, Strasbourg – 12 July 1934, Chaumont-en-Vexin) was a French chess master.
- Born in Strasbourg, France, he was a refugee after the Franco-Prussian War and the annexation of Alsace–Lorraine to the German Empire. In 1890, he was first, followed by Jean Taubenhaus, Stanislaus Sittenfeld, etc., in Paris.
- In 1892, he won ahead of Dawid Janowski in Paris.
- In 1896, he took 2nd, behind Janowski, in Paris.
- Goetz was unofficial French Champion, winning at Lyon 1914.He published articles: Les échecs et la presse (1917), The Parallel Progress of Chess and Civilization, in L’Eco degli Scacchi (1918), and books Cours d'échecs (1921), Cinema du Jeu des échecs (1922).
