Giovanni Leonardo di Bona or Giovanni Leonardo da Cutri (both given names can be seen also in the reversed order Leonardo Giovanni), known as Il Puttino (Italian Small Child) (1542 – 1587) was an early Italian chess master. Giovanni Leonardo was born in Cutro, Calabria. He studied law in Rome. In 1560, he lost a […]
Paolo Boi (1528-1598) was an Italian chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest chess players of the 16th century. He beat the Pope. He was born in Syracuse and died in Naples. Source page: Wikipedia under Wikipedia license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Boi
Ruy López de Segura (1530 –1580) was a Spanish priest and later bishop in Segura whose book Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez was one of the first fundamental chess books in Europe, only after Pedro Damiano’s. He was born in Zafra near Badajoz, and he studied and lived in […]
Pedro Damiano (in Portuguese, Pedro Damião; Damiano is the Italian form, much like the Latin Damianus) was a Portuguese chess player who lived from 1480-1544. He wrote one of the first chess books, published in Rome, Italy in 1512 and entitled Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti. The book […]
Luis Ramirez de Lucena (c.1465 – c.1530) was a leading Spanish chess player. He wrote the oldest existing printed book on chess, Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez, published in Salamanca in 1497. The Lucena position is named after him, even though it does not appear in his book. Source page: Wikipedia under Wikipedia […]
Anatoly Karpov on his thoughts as to why Bobby Fischer refused to defend his world champion status against Karpov in 1975.
A short video selection with Bobby’s thoughts on the Russians and their attacking of his character when he was playing Tal.
Excerpt video from a documentary on Bobby Fischer including footage from the 1992 Fischer-Spassky rematch in Yugoslavia.
Here is a selection of silent video footage from the 1972 Spassky-Fischer World Championship match in Iceland with a classical music overdub.
Here is a tribute video montage about Bobby Fischer.
