Luis RamÃrez de Lucena
Luis Ramirez Lucena (* um 1465, † 1530 ) was a Spanish chess player and author. He wrote the first printed chess book, which has been preserved.
The exact lifetime of Luis Ramirez Lucena are not known. He lived as a priest in Salamanca and worked there as a professional player.
Lucena was made famous by his 1497 probably published in Salamanca chess textbook Repetición de amores e arte de axedrez. Because of the early date of publication ( before 1500 ) is a cradle pressure. Lucena book describes, as Francesc Vicents 1495 printed in Valencia chess book, the modern rules of chess. The first part of the book consists of a seriously held and accompanied by many quotations treatise on the love that has nothing to do with chess. The second part is entitled " Short instruction and much needed introduction to learning the game of chess together with 150 artificial playoffs ( iuegos de partido ) ".
The work shows the transition from Arabic to modern chess, and consists mainly of chess compositions according to the old and new rules. But the book also contains some chess openings. It is known that stifled Matt described by Lucena. For the theory of rook endgames the Lucena position is significant. The attribution is however based on a mistake, the position is now known to back to the Italian champion Alessandro Salvio.
Lucena is also the author of probably written 1500-1505 Gottingen manuscript in question whose content is based on his book. The same applies to a discovered in 1922 by Victor Place Paris manuscript.
Works
- Repetición de amores e arte axedres con CL iuegos de partido, Polyphemus Ediciones, Madrid 1997, ISBN 84-86547-39-3 reprint of Salamanca in 1497
- Tassilo von der Lasa and Heydebrand: Berliner Chess memories along with the games of Greco and Lucena, Leipzig 1859, pp. 159-223 German translation