Someone that should definetly be mentioned is this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_L%C3%B3pez_de_Segura
He was a priest and bishop.. ( I don't know if that counts as a 'monk
Essay on 16th Century monks
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caseyFgriffin wrote:
Someone that should definetly be mentioned is this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_L%C3%B3pez_de_Segura
He was a priest and bishop.. ( I don't know if that counts as a 'monk
This only touches it. I want to understand development of modern chess openings any history on it. Chess history says chinese originated it. Please help.
There is a lot of history on that out there but not sure how much specifically on the 16'th century.
Writings about the theory of how to play chess began to appear in the 15th century. The Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez (Repetition of Love and the Art of Playing Chess) by Spanish churchman Luis Ramirez de Lucena was published in Salamanca in 1497.[34] Lucena and later masters like Portuguese Pedro Damiano, Italians Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Giulio Cesare Polerio and Gioachino Greco, and Spanish bishop Ruy López de Segura developed elements ofopenings and started to analyze simple endgames.
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Arnavaz wrote: Hi! I need to do a chess assignment of not more than 1000 words on the role of the 16th century catholic monks in the development of modern chess openings.
Nun.
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The rules of chess changed substantially during the 16th century - but Catholic monks didn't have anything in particular to do with that.
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With just about zero information in my brain on this one, I'd say that this is more of a research project than an essay.
1. Monks were supposed to dedicate themselves to working and praying according to the vows of their order. Sitting around playing chess was considered a big time waster that took your mind of the divine and distracted you from your general salvation and doing good works for others.
2. Most early chess knowledge seems to have developed as the by-product of idle aristocrats. A Bishop like Ruy Lopez, would only have come from the upper class.
I have always heard that chess wandered into Europe from India and was based on a two-player version of Chathuranga (sp?) and did not come from China. Though the origins of any old game could be just about anything anywhere given a long enough time.
Hi! I need to do a chess assignment of not more than 1000 words on the role of the 16th century catholic monks in the development of modern chess openings.