Aaron Nimzowitsch

Aaron Nimzowitsch (originally Niemzowitsch), *November 7 1886 (Riga) +March 16 1935, was a latvian grandmaster of chess. With his new ideas in chess strategy he was the forerunner of the so-called hypermoderns. He wrote two books on chess strategy: Mein System (My System) (1925) and Die Praxis meines System (The Practice of my System).