Chess History: Early Modern Writers - Salvio/Carrera/Greco

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Chess History: Early Modern Writers - Salvio/Carrera/
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: Chess
History: Early Modern Writers - Salvio/Carrera/Greco
There were three important writers in the 17th century: Dr.
Alessandro Salvio, Pietro (Peter) Carrera, and Gioachino Greco.
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Dr. Alessandro Salvio wrote three books:
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Trattato Dell'Inventione Et Arte Liberale Del Gioco
Di Scacchi Del Dottor Alessandro Salvio Napolitano.
Diviso in Discorsi, Sbaratti, e Partiti. was published in
Naples in 1604 and again in 1634. It's considered the first
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comprehensive chess book.
1612
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La Scaccaide was a tragic Chess poem by Salvio
published in 1612
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Il Puttino, altramente detto, il cavaliero errante,
sopra il gioco de' scacchi, a romanticized story of
Leonardo da Bono, was also published in Naples 1634.
Salvio also gave us the gambit that bears his name:
Salvio Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 ef4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.Ne5 Qh4+ 6.
Kf1 Nh6 7.d4 d6
Pietro Carrera's book, Il gioco degli scacchi diviso in otto
libri ne' quali si insegnano i precetti,le uscite,ed i tratti
posticci del gioco e si discorre della vera origine di esso. ,
published in Militello, Sicily, in 1617 was a comprehensive
manual, but it had several interesting and original ideas.
Already, it showed that people were considering variants to
standard chess. Carrera developed a game using an 8 x 10
squared board with an extra two men, one called champions who
would possess the combined abilities of the rook and the knight
and the other called centaurs who would possess the combined
abilities of the bishop and the knight. The rules for this game can
be found here. You can actually play a game of Carrera Chess
here.
Carrera, writing under the pseudonym, Valentino Vespaio,
published a scathing response to Dr. Salvio's own criticism of
Carrara, Altramente detto IL CAVALIERO ERRANTE DEL
SALVIO Sopra il gioco de' Scacchi, con la sua Apologia
contra il Carrera, diviso in tre Libri in a pamphlet called
Risposta all'Apologia
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Css History: Early Modern Writers - Salvio/Carrera/Greco
Carrera, like Salvio, gave us a gambit bearing his name:
Carrera Gambit (King's Gambit) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Qh5 (C33)
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
postumously 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
You can read a long translated excerpt from the The Royal Game
here.
Greco gave us a counter-gambit bearing his name:
The Greco Counter Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5
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[Greco's analysis of the Greco Counter Gambit appeared in his very
first manuscript, entitled
Tratato del nobilissimo e militare esercitio de Scacchi nel quale
se contengano molti bellisimi Tratti e la vera Scienza di esso
Giuoco composto da Cioachino Calabrese, which he dedicated to
the Duke of Lorena in 1617. The opening was renamed the Latvian
Gambit at the FIDE Congress, 1937 to reflect the work of the Latvian
players, such as Karlis Betin, who analyzed this opening deeply.]
Greco demonstrated the maturity of tactics during the
Renaissance period of chess and the games offered in his book
are quite beautiful.
Here are two variations of Greco's Mate:
Greco's Mate 1
and
Greco's Mate 2
View some of Greco's games
Other sites offering some of the games of Il Calabrese:
page 1
and
page 2
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