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S4 E11 Gioachino Greco v NN (1620)

May 30, 2026 • Cassidy Noble • Season 4 • Episode 11

0:00 | 18:33

This week, we are looking at the “Father of Italian Chess”, someone who catalogued and organized so many chess games, rules, ideas, openings, endings, and constructs as well as traveled the world as the first professional chess player - Gioachino Greco.

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 d6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.d4 Qh6 7.g3 Qh3+ 8.Kf2 fxg3+ 9.hxg3 Bxf3 10.Bxf7+ Kd8 11.Qxf3 Qd7 12.Rxh7 Rxh7 13.Bxg8 Rh2+ 14.Kg1 Rxc2 15.Qxf8+ Qe8 16.Bg5+ Kd7 17.Be6+ Qxe6 18.Qd8+ Kc6 19.d5+ Qxd5 20.exd5+ Kxd5 21.Nc3+ Ke5 22.Qe8+ Kd4 23.Qe4+ Kc5 24.Be3# 1-0

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https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1272515

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RicCAAAAYAAJ/page/n129/mode/1up

https://archive.org/details/TheRoyallGameOfChessePlay/page/n34/mode/1up

https://billwallchess.blogspot.com/2020/11/gioacchino-greco-1600-1634.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino_Greco

http://cassidynoble.com/

Cassidy Noble

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