Gioachino Greco's best game.

Submitted by Logicalfan10 on Fri, 09/28/2007 at 7:39pm.

First of all, I would like to thank Chessmaster 10th Edition for the info on the game. This is one of Gioachino Greco's best game. Who is Gioahino Greco? He is one of the first Grandmasters. Greco is credited for developing some gambits and published witty collections of games that illustrate his theories.


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by Logicalfan10 - 12 months ago
Wantirna South, VIC Australia
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You didn't copy that did you? If you didn't thanks for the info.

 


by batgirl - 12 months ago
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     Gioachino Greco never published a book yet his influence was felt beyond Italy and throughout Europe. Greco was an itinerant chess master, by far the strongest of his day, who left his benefactors and patrons manuscripts of his chess ideas, particularly having to do with gambits, which were published posthumously under a single title.
     Greco, also called Il Calabrese, lived from 1600 until 1634.
In 1656 his manuscripts were published in London by Henry Herringman, the book to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange. The translation was prepared by Francis Beale with Peter Stent as engraver. It bore the cumbersome title:
     The Royall Game of Chess-Play.
     Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility.
     Illustrated with almost an hundred Gambetts.
     Being the study of Biochimo [Gioachino] the famous Italian A French edition, Le Jeu des Eschets; Traduit de l'Italien de Gioachino Greco Calabrois  was printed in 1669 by Perpingvé in Paris and again in 1689 by Jacques Le Febvre in Paris

      Gioachino Greco was born around 1600 in Celico, which near Cosenza in Calabria. Calabria had already produced such players as Leonardo di Bono and Michele di Mauro. From his writing it's apparent the he wasn't educated and likely came from a lower class family. Already in 1619, Greco started keeping a notebook of tactics and particulary clever games and he took up the custom of giving copies of his manuscripts to his wealthy patrons. In Rome Monsignor Corsino della casa Minutoli Tegrini, Cardinal Savelli and Monsignor Francisco Buoncompagni all received copies (of which there are extant copies, dated 1620 in the Corsiniana library in Rome, under the title, Trattato del nobilissimo gioco de scacchi). Despite his popularity in Rome, in 1621 Greco took off to test himself against the rest of Europe leaving this paper trail as he went. In 1621 he left a fine copy of his manuscripts with Duke Enrico of Lorraine in Nancy. He traveled to Paris where he played Arnauld (Isaac) de Corbeville, Enrico di Savoia (the Marquis of St. Sorlin) and the Duke of Nemours and Geneva and others. He had apparently been quite successful because in traveling from Paris to England he was waylaid by robbers who divested him of 5,000 scudi, a princely sum. Finally making it to London, he beat all the best players. Sir Francis Godolphin and Nicholas Mountstephen were given copies of his manuscripts. While in London, Greco developed an idea to record entire games, rather than positions, for study and inclusion in his manuscripts. He returned to Paris in 1624 where he rewrote his manuscipt collection to reflect his new ideas. He then went to Spain and played at the court of Philip IV. There he beat his mentor and the strongest player of the time (other than himself), don Mariano Morano. He finally returned to Italy where he was enticed to traveling to the New Indies, the Americas, by a Spanish nobleman. He seemingly contracted some disease there and died around 1630 (possibly 1634) at the young age of 30 (34). He generously left all the money he earned at chess to the Jesuits.

Gioachino Greco stood head and shoulders above his comtemporaries, a feat seldom duplicated. David Hooper, in The Oxford Companion to Chess, states that Greco probably (though exactly why he felt that way isn't explained) made up the games in his manuscripts. The question of whether he actually played the games or invented them is rather moot since if he invented them, he was perfectly capable of playing them.

An example of his writing can be seen here


by ugralitan - 12 months ago
Ankara Turkey
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            Thank you for your addition on a reasonable choice.And Chessmaster is quite a help for both of us i think.
 

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