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.
[1] Goetz was unofficial French Champion, winning at Lyon 1914.
[2] He published articles: Les échecs et la presse (1917), The Parallel Progress of Chess and Civilization, in L’Eco degli Scacchi (1918),[3] and books Cours d'échecs (1921), Cinema du Jeu des échecs (1922).