CHESS PLAYER

Gioachino Greco

1590 - 1630

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Gioachino Greco (c. 1600 – c. 1634), surnamed Cusentino and more frequently il Calabrese, was an Italian chess player and writer. He recorded some of the earliest chess games known in their entirety. His games, which never indicated players, were quite possibly constructs, but served as examples of brilliant combinations.Greco was very likely the strongest player of his time, having played (and defeated) the best players of Rome, Paris, London, and Madrid. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gioachino Greco has received more than 151,810 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Gioachino Greco is the 36th most popular chess player, the 1,843rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,699th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Gioachino Greco has had the most page views in the with 18,665 views, followed by Russian (4,885), and Italian (4,351). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Icelandic (94.74%), Latvian (87.72%), and Hebrew (69.90%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Gioachino Greco ranks 36 out of 461. Before him are Savielly Tartakower, Vera Menchik, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Bent Larsen, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, and Carl Schlechter. After him are Lyudmila Rudenko, Legall de Kermeur, Efim Bogoljubov, Howard Staunton, László Szabó, and Svetozar Gligorić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1590, Gioachino Greco ranks 7. Before him are Ahmed I, Kösem Sultan, Pope Clement X, Mahfiruz Hatun, Simon Vouet, and Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Yamada Nagamasa, Urbain Grandier, Jacob van Eyck, Théophile de Viau, and John Albert II. Among people deceased in 1630, Gioachino Greco ranks 10. Before him are Yuan Chonghuan, Fede Galizia, Henry Briggs, Johann Schein, Agrippa d'Aubigné, and Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg. After him are Akile Hatun, Yamada Nagamasa, Esaias van de Velde, Tōdō Takatora, Johann Liss, and Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gioachino Greco ranks 1,843 out of 5,161. Before him are Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers (1539), Giuseppe Mercalli (1850), Laura Mancini (1636), Gustavo Marzi (1908), Giorgio Chinaglia (1947), and Piero del Pollaiolo (1443). After him are Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582), Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies (1814), Gaius Marius the Younger (-109), Pietro I Orseolo (928), Gallus Anonymus (1010), and Francesco Maria del Monte (1549).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Italy

Among chess players born in Italy, Gioachino Greco ranks 2. Before him are Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona (1542). After him are Alessandro Salvio (1570), Clarice Benini (1905), Giambattista Lolli (1698), Serafino Dubois (1817), Eros Riccio (1977), and Alberto David (1970).

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