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Book - (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHESS or Comparative Summary in Synoptic Tables of the Best Works Written on This Game by French and Foreign Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Made Available to all Nations by the Universal Language of Numbers. By Aaron Alexandre)...ENCYCLOPÉDIE DES ÉCHECS ou Résumé Comparatif en Tableaux Synoptiques des Meilleurs Ouvrages Écrits sur Ce Jeu par les Auteurs Français et Étrangers, tant Anciens que Modernes, Mis à l'Usage de Toutes les Nations par le Langage Universel des Chiffres. Par A. Alexandre...1837...Paris: Chez d'Urtubie et Worms [etc.]; London: Chez Thomas Hurt, 1837...Hardcovers, large oblong format 18x12 inches (30x45 cm), cloth covered spine and corner and marbled paper covered boards, approximately 106 unnumbered. Pasted on a blank front endpaper is the mounted printed paper frontispiece. Contains 51 tables of chess openings. Text in English, French, Italian and German...., the first to survey chess openings. It was Aaron Alexandre's first and most important work. The subcribers list includes a person from Brazil and the French Rothschilds. Aaron (Albert) Alexandre (b. circa 1765 in Hohenfeld, Franconia; d.1850 in London, England) was a German-French-English chess player and writer. Aaron Alexandre, a Bavarian trained as a rabbi, arrived in France in 1793. At first, he worked as a German teacher and as an inventor. Eventually, chess became his primary occupation. He tried to make a complete survey of chess openings, publishing his findings as the Encyclopédie des Échecs (Encyclopedia of Chess, Paris, 1837). In this book, he used the algebraic notation and the castling symbols 0-0 and 0-0-0. In 1838, he won a match against Howard Staunton in London. Alexandre was one of the operators of the fake chess playing machine known as the Turk.******

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