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Giuoco Piano, the Glossary

The paren)Hooper & Whyld (1996), p. 153. Giuoco Piano. "The name means 'quiet game' and until the 19th century was often applied to any opening that was not a gambit." is a chess opening beginning with the moves: "White aims to develop quickly – but so does Black. White can construct a but in unfavourable conditions a centre which cannot provide a basis for further active play." The name "Italian Game" is also commonly used; however, that name is sometimes used instead to describe all openings starting 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4, including 3...Nf6 (the Two Knights Defence) and other less common replies.^[1]

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Adolf Anderssen

Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Alexandr Fier

Alexandr Hilário Takeda Sakai dos Santos Fier (born 11 March 1988) is a Brazilian chess grandmaster.

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Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов,; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician.

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Anish Giri

Anish Kumar Giri (अनीश कुमार गिरि; Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.

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Bishop's Opening

The Bishop's Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: White attacks Black's f7-square and prevents Black from advancing the d-pawn to d5. Giuoco Piano and Bishop's Opening are 15th century in chess and chess openings.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Chess endgame

The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame.

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Chess opening

The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. Giuoco Piano and chess opening are chess openings.

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ChessBase

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess.

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Chessgames.com

Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.

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Compensation (chess)

In chess, compensation is the typically short-term positional advantages a player gains in exchange for typically disadvantage.

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Draw (chess)

In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning.

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Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings

The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from 1974 to 1979 by the Serbian company Šahovski Informator (Chess Informant). Giuoco Piano and Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings are chess openings.

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Evans Gambit

The Evans Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Evans Gambit is an attacking line of the Giuoco Piano. Giuoco Piano and Evans Gambit are chess openings.

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Everyman Chess

Everyman Chess, formerly known as Cadogan Chess, is a major publisher of books and CDs about chess.

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Evgeny Sveshnikov

Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (Евгений Эллинович Све́шников; Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs; 11 February 1950 – 18 August 2021) was a Russian chess player and writer who is credited with development of the Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defence.

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Gambit

A gambit (from Italian gambetto, the act of tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices with the aim of achieving a subsequent advantage. Giuoco Piano and gambit are chess openings.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer.

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Göttingen manuscript

The Göttingen manuscript is the earliest known work devoted entirely to modern chess. Giuoco Piano and Göttingen manuscript are 15th century in chess and chess openings.

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Gioachino Greco

Gioachino Greco (&ndash), surnamed Cusentino and more frequently il Calabrese, was an Italian chess player and writer.

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Giuoco Piano

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Graham Burgess

Graham K. Burgess (born 24 February 1968 in Liverpool, England) is an English FIDE Master of chess and a noted writer and trainer.

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Grandmaster (chess)

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hikaru Nakamura

Christopher Hikaru Nakamura, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, December 7, 2022 (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion.

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Ian Nepomniachtchi

Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (a; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Initiative (chess)

Initiative in a chess position belongs to the player who can make threats that cannot be ignored, thus putting the opponent in the position of having to spend turns responding to threats rather than creating new threats.

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Italian Gambit

The Italian Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: It is often played as an alternative to the quiet and closed lines of the Giuoco Piano or Giuoco Pianissimo openings. Giuoco Piano and Italian Gambit are chess openings.

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Italian Game

The Italian Game is a family of chess openings beginning with the moves: This opening is defined by the of the white bishop to c4 (the so-called ""), where it attacks Black's vulnerable f7-square. Giuoco Piano and Italian Game are chess openings.

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James Macrae Aitken

James Macrae Aitken (27 October 1908 – 3 December 1983) was a Scottish chess player.

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Jerome Gambit

The Jerome Gambit is an unsound chess opening which is an offshoot of the Giuoco Piano. Giuoco Piano and Jerome Gambit are chess openings.

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Joël Lautier

Joël Lautier is a French chess grandmaster and one of the world's leading chess players in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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John Nunn

John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician.

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Jon Ludvig Hammer

Jon Ludvig Nilssen Hammer (born 2 June 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and three-time Norwegian Chess Champion.

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Lajos Portisch

Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik".

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Larry Kaufman

Lawrence Charles Kaufman (born November 15, 1947) is an American chess player.

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László Bárczay

László Bárczay (21 February 1936 – 7 April 2016) was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.

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Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.

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Max Lange Attack

The Max Lange Attack is a chess opening that can arise from several different opening lines, including the Two Knights Defense, Petroff's Defense, Scotch Gambit, Bishop's Opening, Center Game, and Giuoco Piano. Giuoco Piano and Max Lange Attack are chess openings.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paul Saladin Leonhardt

Paul Saladin Leonhardt (13 November 1877 – 14 December 1934) was a German chess master.

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Pedro Damiano

Pedro Damiano (Pedro Damião; Damiano is the Italian form, much like the Latin Damianus; 1480–1544) was a Portuguese chess player.

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Rudolf Spielmann

Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 – 20 August 1942) was a Jewish-Austrian chess master of the romantic school, and chess writer.

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Ruy Lopez

The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Ruy Lopez is named after 16th-century Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura. Giuoco Piano and Ruy Lopez are chess openings.

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Sacrifice (chess)

In chess, a sacrifice is a move that gives up a piece with the objective of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms.

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Serafino Dubois

Serafino Dubois (10 October 1817 – 15 January 1899) was an Italian chess Master and chess writer.

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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov (Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

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Teimour Radjabov

Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; Teymur Boris oğlu Rəcəbov,; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

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The Oxford Companion to Chess

The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference book on the game of chess written by David Vincent Hooper and Kenneth Whyld.

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Two Knights Defense

The Two Knights Defense (also called the Prussian Defense) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: First recorded by Giulio Cesare Polerio (c. 1550 – c. 1610) in the late 16th century, this line of the Italian Game was extensively developed in the 19th century. Giuoco Piano and Two Knights Defense are 16th century in chess and chess openings.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuoco_Piano

Also known as Épine Dorsale, Gioco Pianissimo, Gioco Piano, Giuco Piano, Giuoco Pianissimo, Gucci Piano, Guioco Piano, Italian Opening, Moller Attack.

, Viktor Korchnoi, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik.

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15th century in chess

16th century in chess

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