Alexandre, Aaron




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1815  1  2488 (127) 1
1816  2  2497 (122) 0
1817  2  2506 (116) 2
1818  2  2505 (112) 5
1819  4  2488 (113) 0
1820  5  2472 (112) 2
1821  5  2469 (115) 0
1822  5  2467 (117) 0
1823  5  2464 (118) 0
1824  4  2462 (119) 0
1825  5  2459 (120) 0
1826  5  2457 (121) 0
1827  5  2454 (121) 0
1828  5  2452 (120) 0
1829  6  2449 (120) 0
1830  6  2447 (119) 0
1831  7  2444 (117) 0
1832  8  2442 (115) 0
1833  10  2439 (113) 0
1834  14  2437 (110) 0
1835  14  2435 (107) 0
1836  13  2432 (103) 0
1837  14  2430 (98) 0
1838  17  2427 (93) 3
1839  20  2410 (91) 0
1840  21  2394 (88) 25
1841  22  2382 (84) 0
1842  26  2370 (79) 0
1843  31  2358 (71) 25

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Alexandre, Aaron  
Born: 17 Nov. 1773
Died: 16 Nov. 1850
 
Notes:
Cornil and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give year of birth as 1765; Gaige, Hooper and Whyld, Harding, and Sarah's Chess Journal website give year of birth as 1766. Staunton said he was 75 in Dec. 1844 (Chess Player's Chronicle, 1844, vol.5, p.397), which would imply that he was born in 1769 (or Dec. 1768). Staunton says in his obituary for Alexandre in the Dec. 1850 issue of the Chess Player's Chronicle (p.384) that Alexandre had reached the age of 'fourscore years' (80), and the Schachzeitung of Dec. 1850 (p.424) also says he was 80. The obituary in La Régence (1851, vol.3, p.4) says that he was born around 1765 or 1768. Townsend (p.109) gives evidence that he was born 17 Nov. 1773. However, he also gives evidence (p.131) that his burial record (buried 20 Nov. 1850) gives his age as 84, which is consistent with birth about 1766.
 
References
Books
   Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 18, 241
   Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 438
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 6
   Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 327
   Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 38
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 79
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 8
   Murray, History of Chess, page 877
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 35, 68
   Standage, The Turk, page 206
   Townsend, Historical Notes on Players, page 109, 131
   Townsend, Notes on Staunton, page 9, 10
   Walker, Chess Studies, page vi
Periodicals
   [BLL], 28 June 1835, page 2
   [BLL], 8 Mar. 1840, page 4
   [BLL], 24 July 1842, page 3
   [BLL], 12 Nov. 1843, page 2
   [BLL], 5 Jan. 1851, page 8
   [CMNY], vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1857, page 28
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 12, Dec. 1844, page 397
   [CPC], vol. 11, no. 12, Dec. 1850, page 384
   [ILN], vol. 17, no. 456, 23 Nov. 1850, page 407
   [MaSZ], vol. 1, no. 12, July 1850, page 185
   [NR], vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 1864, page 3
   [Pal], vol. 1, no. 1, 15 Mar. 1836, page 14
   [Pal], vol. 1, no. 1, 15 Dec. 1841, page 10
   [Pal], vol. 5, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1845, page 30
   [Pal], vol. 5, no. 3, 15 Mar. 1845, page 133
   [Pal], vol. 6, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1846, page 18
   [Phil], vol. 1, no. 3, Feb. 1838, page 120
   [Reg], vol. 1, no. 9, Sep. 1849, page 266
   [Reg], vol. 2, no. 12, Dec. 1850, page 354, 363
   [Reg], vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 1851, page 3
   [RiS], vol. 1, no. 15, Aug. 1859, page 119
   [Sis], vol. 5, no. 4, Apr. 1851, page 126
   [Sis], vol. 5, no. 5, May 1851, page 144
   [SZ], vol. 1, no. 1, July 1846, page 2
   [SZ], vol. 5, no. 12, Dec. 1850, page 424
   [SZ], vol. 6, no. 1, Jan. 1851, page 5
Web
   Harding, Tim.  [The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (Part 1)], page 2
   Mann, Steve.  [Yorkshire Chess History - 2nd meeting of the YCA]
   Metzner, Paul.  [Philidor and the Café de la Régence Chess Masters]
   Sarah.  [John Jacob Löwenthal]
   Sarah.  [State of Chess in 1838]
   Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]
   Tomlinson, Charles.  [Simpson's Divan]
Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Alexandre, A. - de la Bourdonnais, L.C.M. 1815         (s)     0.5   -   0.5      Alexandre, A. gave odds of the queen
Alexandre, A. - de la Bourdonnais, L.C.M. 1817         (s)     1   -   1      Alexandre, A. gave odds of pawn and two moves
Alexandre, A. - Weyle 1818         (c)     2   -   1
Alexandre, A. - de la Bourdonnais, L.C.M. 1818         (s)     1   -   1
Mouret, J.F. - Alexandre, A. 1820         (s)     1.5   -   0.5
Alexandre, A. - Staunton, H. 1838         (s)     2   -   1
Alexandre, A. - Samuel (2) 1839         (s)     2   -   0
Alexandre, A. - Noyes, F. 1840         (f)     16   -   9
Bledow, L.E. - Alexandre, A. 1843         (c)     4   -   0
von der Lasa, T. - Alexandre, A. 1843         (c)     2   -   0
Alexandre, A. - Witholm, A. 1843         (c)     1   -   1
Alexandre, A. - Silberschmidt, H.H. 1843         (c)     0.5   -   0.5
Horwitz, B. - Alexandre, A. 1843         (c)     7.5   -   4.5
John, L.E. - Alexandre, A. 1843         (s)     1.5   -   0.5
Popert, W.M. - Alexandre, A. 1843         (s)     2   -   0

Player information updated: 11 Jan. 2026