Gioachino Greco
Italian chess player and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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]