Re: VMs: Andrei Mogutov / off topic :-)

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

At 23:57 02/03/2004 -1000, Steve Ekwall wrote:
> FWIW: I think Ruy Lopez* WAS a jusuit priest too? c 14-1500???

Ruy López de Segura - who wrote his famous book on chess in 1561 - was 
definitely a priest (he also tried to become a bishop but was turned down) 
- but a Jesuit priest? No. :-(

BTW, chess (as we recognise it today) only emerged at the end of the 15th 
century. Here's Gareth Williams' accessible account of early modern chess 
(including a tournament from 1575 where Ruy got beaten):-
        http://fun.supereva.it/carmelo111/garet.htm?p

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: enough chess trivia, already! :-o 


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