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Ruy López de Segura

1530 - 1580

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Rodrigo "Ruy" López de Segura (c. 1530 – c. 1580) was a Spanish chess player, author, and Catholic priest whose 1561 treatise Libro de la invención liberal y Arte del juego del Axedrez was one of the first books about modern chess in Europe. He made great contributions to chess opening theory, including in the King's Gambit and the Ruy López (or Spanish) opening that bears his name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruy López de Segura has received more than 343,761 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ruy López de Segura is the 19th most popular chess player (up from 22nd in 2019), the 266th most popular biography from Spain (up from 325th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Chess Player.

Ruy lópez de segura is a chess opening that has been played for over 500 years. It is most famous for being the first chess opening to be analyzed extensively.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Ruy López de Segura ranks 19 out of 461. Before him are Vasily Smyslov, François-André Danican Philidor, Adolf Anderssen, Nona Gaprindashvili, Paul Morphy, and Paul Keres. After him are Viktor Korchnoi, Samuel Reshevsky, Judit Polgár, Siegbert Tarrasch, Akiba Rubinstein, and Richard Réti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Ruy López de Segura ranks 7. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, Jean Bodin, Étienne de La Boétie, Uesugi Kenshin, Yasuke, and Jean Nicot. After him are Anastasia Romanovna, Louis, Prince of Condé, Jan Kochanowski, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Christopher Báthory, and Juan de Herrera. Among people deceased in 1580, Ruy López de Segura ranks 7. Before him are Andrea Palladio, Luís de Camões, Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain, Lala Mustafa Pasha, Henry, King of Portugal, and Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy. After him are Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Inés Suárez, Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Juliana of Stolberg, and Hieronymus Wolf.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Ruy López de Segura ranks 266 out of 3,355. Before him are Wittiza (687), Raymond of Penyafort (1175), Vicente Aleixandre (1898), Lluís Companys (1882), Iker Casillas (1981), and Pompeia Plotina (65). After him are Alfonso I of Asturias (693), Muhammad I of Córdoba (823), Nachmanides (1194), Chindasuinth (563), Carlos Sainz (1962), and Juan Díaz de Solís (1470).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Spain

Among chess players born in Spain, Ruy López de Segura ranks 1. After him are Luis Ramírez de Lucena (1475), Arturo Pomar (1931), Juan Corzo (1873), Francisco Vallejo Pons (1982), and David Antón Guijarro (1995).

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