CHESS PLAYER

Gioachino Greco

1590 - 1630

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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. Greco was very likely the strongest player of his time, having played (and defeated) the best players of Rome, Paris, London, and Madrid. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gioachino Greco is the 51st most popular chess player (down from 36th in 2019), the 1,918th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,843rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Gioachino Greco ranks 51 out of 461. Before him are Alexander McDonnell, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Jan Timman, László Szabó, Olga Rubtsova, and Nigel Short. After him are Yuri Averbakh, Mir Sultan Khan, Henry Bird, Lajos Portisch, Andor Lilienthal, and Dawid Janowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1590, Gioachino Greco ranks 9. Before him are Pope Clement X, Mahfiruz Hatun, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Simon Vouet, William Bradford, and Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw. After him are Urbain Grandier, John Albert II, Yamada Nagamasa, Théophile de Viau, Jacob van Eyck, and María de Zayas. Among people deceased in 1630, Gioachino Greco ranks 10. Before him are Fede Galizia, Henry Briggs, Yuan Chonghuan, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Johann Schein, and Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg. After him are Esaias van de Velde, Akile Hatun, Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza, Yamada Nagamasa, Johann Liss, and Tōdō Takatora.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gioachino Greco ranks 1,918 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovannino Guareschi (1908), Fabio Cudicini (1935), Antipope Theodoric (1100), Mario Zenari (1946), Luigi Orione (1872), and Corrado Gini (1884). After him are Lucius Cassius Longinus (-50), Eduardo De Filippo (1900), Marcia (200), Rodoald (626), Jacopo Tiepolo (1150), and Giuseppe Pella (1902).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Italy

Among chess players born in Italy, Gioachino Greco ranks 2. Before him are Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona (1542). After him are Alessandro Salvio (1570), Giambattista Lolli (1698), Serafino Dubois (1817), Clarice Benini (1905), Eros Riccio (1977), and Alberto David (1970).

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