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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruy López de Segura has received more than 317,169 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Ruy López de Segura is the 22nd most popular chess player, the 325th most popular biography from Spain (up from 361st 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 22 out of 374Before him are Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Adolf Anderssen, Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, and Vera Menchik. After him are Siegbert Tarrasch, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Miguel Najdorf, Judit Polgár, and Savielly Tartakower.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Ruy López de Segura ranks 9Before him are Étienne de La Boétie, Uesugi Kenshin, Anastasia Romanovna, Jean Nicot, Yasuke, and Louis, Prince of Condé. After him are Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Jan Kochanowski, Christopher Báthory, Juan de Herrera, Starina Novak, and Ranuccio Farnese. Among people deceased in 1580, Ruy López de Segura ranks 7Before 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 Hieronymus Wolf, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Inés Suárez, Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, and Juliana of Stolberg.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Ruy López de Segura ranks 325 out of 2,932Before him are Maria Anna of Spain (1606), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), Isidore the Laborer (1080), Gonzalo Pizarro (1510), John of Austria the Younger (1629), and Diego de Landa (1524). After him are Ferdinand Columbus (1488), Abraham Cresques (1325), Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907), Catherine of Navarre (1470), Gérard Encausse (1865), and César Manrique (1919).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Spain

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