Alessandro Salvio

Alessandro Salvio
Full name	Alessandro Salvio
Country	Italy
Born	c. 1570
Died	c. 1640 (aged c. 70)

Alessandro Salvio (c. 1570 – c. 1640)^[1] was an Italian chess player who is considered to be the unofficial world champion around the year 1600. He started an Italian chess academy in Naples, Italy, and wrote a book called Trattato dell'Inventione et Arte Liberale del Gioco Degli Scacchi, which was published in Naples in 1604. He also wrote Il Puttino published in 1634. According to JH Saratt's translation, Il Puttino was first published in 1604, and republished in 1634.

Salvio Gambit

The Salvio Gambit is a gambit in the King's Gambit Accepted. It is as follows; 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.Ne5 Qh4+ 6.Kf1.^[2]

See also

• Lucena position

References

Bibliography

• Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280049-3

Further reading

• The works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio on the game of chessVon J. H. Sarratt, Damiano, Ruy López de Sigura, Alessandro Salvio, Printed for T. Boosey, 1813 Original von Oxford University
• The Chess player's chronicle, The light and lustre of chess, by George Walker, 1843