GRECO, Gioachino.

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Chess Made Easy: Or, the Games of Gioachino Greco, the Calabrian; First edition, based on Greco's Tratto del nobilissimo giuoco degli scacchi. Reckoned as the greatest chess player of the 17th century, Greco circulated his manuscripts of games among wealthy patrons from around 1620, and these manuscripts "became one of the most important productions in the literature of chess" (Murray, p. 830).Gioachino Greco (c.1600-1634) dominated the era that fell between Ruy López and Philidor, earned his living through chess, and was among the game's first professional players. "A complete game appeals to a larger public than does analysis, however accurate, and it is to this novel feature of Greco's work that its instant and lasting popularity was due" (Murray, p. 830).

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