Giovanni Leonardo di Bona (nicknamed Kid ; Italian: Giò Leonardo Di Bona or Leonardo Giovanni da Cutro ; 1542 , Coutro , Calabria - 1597 Bisignano , Calabria ) - Italian chess player , one of the first European masters.
Biography
The young man Leonardo came to Rome , where he became interested in chess. In the same place, he lost several games to Roy Lopez, who had arrived there ( 1560 ). In 1574 - 1575 he visited Madrid , where in the presence of King of Spain Philip II he defeated Rui Lopez and another Spanish chess player Alfonso Seron . At one time he visited Portugal, where at the court of King Sebastian he defeated the strongest Portuguese player, whose real name did not survive, and Leonardo's rival went down in history under the nickname Moor. Repeatedly participated in chess matches with another Italian chess player - Paolo Boi . After returning to his homeland, he was poisoned. As they said, an unknown competitor poisoned him - out of envy for the glory of the “chess king”. Leonardo's life story is published by A. Salvio ( 1634 ).
The Italian artist Luigi Mussini portrayed Giovanni Leonardo di Bona in the painting “Chess Tournament at the Court of the King of Spain” (1883).
Literature
- Chess Dictionary / Ch. ed. L. Ya. Abramov ; comp. G. M. Geyler . - M .: Physical education and sport , 1964. - S. 273. - 120 000 copies.
- Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - S. 204. - 624 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .
- “With chess through centuries and countries”, Gizycki Jerzy, 1970.
See also
- Madrid Tournament 1575
Links
- Giovanni Leonardo's parties in the database