Alphonse Goetz

{{Short description|French chess player}}

Alphonse Goetz (aka A. Geoffroy-Dausay; 15 March 1865, in Strasbourg – 12 July 1934, in 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=CTCIndex |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archivedate=July 4, 2007 }}  {{small|(827 KiB)}} Goetz was unofficial French Champion, winning at Lyon 1914.[http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/interest.htm Le Championnat de France d'Echecs]

He published articles: Les échecs et la presse (1917), The Parallel Progress of Chess and Civilization, in L’Eco degli Scacchi (1918),[http://www.mjae.com/echecs-et-guerre.html Jeu d’échecs et guerre de 1910 à 1924] and books Cours d'échecs (1921), Cinema du Jeu des échecs (1922).{{Cite web |url=http://www.cci-italia.it/me/vcin.htm |title=VNS - Video Notiziario Scacchistico: Cinema du jeu des échecs: una rivista scacchistica francese poco conosciuta |access-date=2007-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207035137/http://www.cci-italia.it/me/vcin.htm |archive-date=2012-02-07 |url-status=dead }}