Well as long as he got credit for something, I guess it all evens out in the long run.
Two misnomers
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Luis Ramirez de Lucena( 1465-1530) was a leading Spanish chess player and the author of the oldest existing chess book, Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez con cl Iuegos de Partido, published in Salamanca in 1497. His name is associated with a fundamental rook ending, commonly called "the Lucena Position", although this attribution may be a misnomer, as it does not appear in his book. However, the smothered mate often referred to as Philidor's Legacy is in the book.In other words, It should be called Lucena's Legacy.
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