Talk:Aron Nimzowitsch

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I wonder.. why Aron and not Aaron? Viruswitch 02:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Aron and Aaron are both used in various sources, just like different spellings of the last name exist, probably based in different transcriptions from Latvian. I don't know whether one version is more correct than another in English. For the record, it is spelled "Aron Nimzowitsch" on his tombstone in Copenhagen. --Pbn-dk 15:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latvian?

I think it is incorrect to call Nimzowitsch a "Latvian" chess master because 1) ethnically he was Jewish and 2) he was born in Riga while it was a Russian city. The country Latvia was established in 1920, when Nimzowitsch already for several years lived abroad.