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Gioachino Greco was a male chess player, non-fiction writer, and chess composer from the Kingdom of Naples. Born in Celico in 1600, he wrote in Italian and is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. He died in the Antilles.
His notable works include *Le jeu des échecs*, *Das Schach des Herrn Gioachino Greco Calabrois und die Schachspiel-Geheimnisse des Arabers Philipp Stamma*, *Die schaakpartijen*, *Traité du jeu des échecs*, and *Il Giuoco degli scacchi di Gioachino Greco detto il Calabrese*. Open Library lists fifteen works by the author.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Le jeu des échecs
- Das Schach des Herrn Gioachino Greco Calabrois und die Schachspiel-Geheimnisse des Arabers Philipp Stamma
- Die schaakpartijen
- Traité du jeu des échecs
- Il Giuoco degli scacchi di Gioachino Greco detto il Calabrese
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Naples
- Place of birth
- Celico
- Place of death
- Antilles
- Occupation
- chess composer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Field of work
- chess
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- Kingdom of Naples
- Image
- Greco book.jpg
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- date of death
- 1634-00-00
- date of birth
- 1600-01-01
- name in native language
- Gioachino Greco
- Commons category
- Gioacchino Greco
- writing language
- Italian
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The frontispiece and title page of a 1656 printing of Greco's work. Depicted is Charles I of England.
Gioachino Greco (c. 1600 – c. 1634), surnamed Cusentino and more frequently il Calabrese, 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, but served as examples of brilliant combinations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gioachino Greco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.