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Alexander, Conel Hugh O'Donel

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Alexander, Conel Hugh O'Donel (1909–1974)

Irish-born British chess player and intelligence officer. He was an international master and British champion 1938 and 1956. In 1946 in a radio chess match he beat the future world champion, Mikhail Botvinnik. CBE 1955.

Born in Cork, he moved to England as a child. He was a mathematics teacher at Winchester College 1932–38 before joining the Foreign Office. Recruited by British Intelligence, during World War II he was a member of the team that cracked the German Enigma code.



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