The frontispiece and title page of a 1656 printing of Greco's work. Depicted is Charles I of England.[1]
Gioachino Greco (c. 1600 – c. 1634), surnamed Cusentino and more frequently il Calabrese,[2] was an Italian chess player and writer. He recorded some of the earliest chess games known in their entirety. His games, which never indicated players, were quite possibly constructs,[3] but served as examples of brilliant combinations.[4]
Greco was very likely the strongest player of his time, having played (and defeated) the best players of Rome, Paris, London, and Madrid.[5] Greco's writing was in the form of manuscripts for his patrons, in which he outlined the rules of chess, gave playing advice, and presented instructive games.[6] These manuscripts were later published to a wide audience and became massively influential after his death.[4]
GioachinoGreco (c. 1600 – c. 1634), surnamed Cusentino and more frequently il Calabrese, was an Italian chess player and writer. He recorded some of...
The Greco Defence (or McConnell Defence), named after GioachinoGreco (c. 1600 – c. 1634), is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2....
16th century by Giulio Cesare Polerio and then the 17th century by GioachinoGreco, after whom it is sometimes named. The opening has the appearance of...
late 16th century by the Italian chess players Giulio Polerio and GioachinoGreco. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. By advancing...
up Gioachino in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gioachino is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: GioachinoGreco (1600–c...
Damiano, Italians Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Giulio Cesare Polerio and GioachinoGreco, and Spanish bishop Ruy López de Segura developed elements of opening...
the word first appeared in Francis Beale's 1656 translation of a GioachinoGreco manuscript, The Royall Game of Chesse-play ("illustrated with almost...
the moves were described in the poem Scachs d'amor. 1623: Greco–NN, London 1623. GioachinoGreco mates on the eighth move with a queen sacrifice. 1788: Thomas...
in retrospect, going back to the early 17th-century Italian player GioachinoGreco (the first player where complete games survive). Richard Lambe, in...
Joachim of Fiore (c.1135 – 1202), mystic, theologian and esoterist GioachinoGreco (c. 1600 – c. 1634) (chess master and writer) v t e "Superficie di...
Silman and IM Willy Hendriks both consider the 17th-century player GioachinoGreco superior to Philidor. Returning to Kaufman's caveats regarding the...
Damiano, Italians Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Giulio Cesare Polerio and GioachinoGreco or Spanish bishop Ruy López de Segura developed elements of openings...
suggests that one explanation is that the sacrifice often occurred in GioachinoGreco's games. "Edgar Colle vs. John James O'Hanlon, Nice (1930)". Chessgames...
play by Ruy López de Segura (1561), Giulio Cesare Polerio (1590), GioachinoGreco (c. 1625), Joseph Bertin (1735), and François-André Danican Philidor...
school of chess as exemplified by 17th-century Italian masters such as GioachinoGreco. Although Ponziani identified himself in the second edition, the 1820...
de Lucena. Chess books by authors such as Ruy López de Segura and GioachinoGreco became widely studied. Chess was the favored game of Voltaire, Rousseau...
where two knights win against one pawn is, according to Lafora, by GioachinoGreco in 1620. In 1780, Chapais did a partial analysis of three positions...
known at least as early as 1623, as evidenced by an endgame study by GioachinoGreco. A less common situation is the defense of bishop versus rook and rook...
Granda Zuniga (Peru, born 1967) Roberto Grau (Argentina, 1900–1944) GioachinoGreco (Italy, 1600 – c. 1634) Ewen McGowen Green (New Zealand, born 1950)...
(1573–1647), was a priest, chess player and author from Militello, Sicily. GioachinoGreco (c. 1600 – c. 1634), also known as Il Calabrese, was "the most famous...
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