Gioachino Greco vs NN (1620)

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Gioachino Greco vs NN
Miscellaneous game (1620), ?, rd 44
King's Gambit: Accepted. Greco Gambit Calabrese Gambit (C38) · 1-0

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Jan-14-05		dac1990: Impressive.

Feb-18-05		InspiredByMorphy: Incredible game! It looks as though Greco was offering his opponent to play the Muzio gambit hundreds of years before its time. After 6.Nc3 black can respond with 6. ...g4 and whites knight has nowhere useful to go. Therefore 7.O-O gxf3 8.Qxf3 looks like what Greco would have intended to play had black responded with 6. ...g4 . He would have played a mean Muzio gambit! 10.Ne5 and especially 15.Bxf4 are impressive moves.

Jul-18-05		sneaky pete: As usual, black is very co-operative wirh 14... Kf8? and 15... Nxh5?

Jul-27-06		Oldrey: the move 10 Ne5 is a mistake. After 10... dxe5 11 Qh5 Qf6 12 dxe5 Qg7 13 e6 Bxe6 14 Bxe6 Nf6 15 Bxf7+ Kf8 16 Qg6 Qxf7 black wins

Jun-22-11		Llawdogg: 15 Bxf4! was a beautiful queen sacrifice!

Jul-30-12		Sebastian88: 14. ... Ke7! And over is the game. Better was: 10. e5 d5 11. Qd3! = (-0.12) If. 11. ... dxc4? Qh7

Apr-20-13		dchrist: king safety first! 15...ke7! stay alive to fight on.

Apr-22-17		Yigor: After 14. fxe7 black was winning with evaluation -3.5 approximatively. 14...Kf8?? is an enormous blunder leading to a position with eval., at least, +7. Nevertheless, 15. Bf4!! is a truly beautiful sacrifice found by Greco.

Apr-22-17		tamar: The Washington Generals of chess NN deserves a lot of credit for Greco's record.

Sep-12-17		RKnight: <sneaky pete: As usual, black is very co-operative with 14... Kf8? and 15... Nxh5?>. Yes 14...Kf8? was a blunder, but note that 15...gxf4 also leads to Greco mating with 16 Qc5#. After 15 Bxf4! NN is in dire straights.

Sep-22-23		FSR: One of those rare games where Greco's opponent plays well - up to a point.

Jul-13-24		Honza Cervenka: 10.Ne5 was a nice but objectively incorrect move. Greco as well as his opponent, if the game was not Greco's own composition, missed 14...Ke7! and black holds the extra piece.

Jul-13-24		Honza Cervenka: <dchrist: king safety first! 15...ke7! stay alive to fight on.> 15...Ke7 avoids immediate mate but after 16.Bxg5 Nd7 17.Qh4 b6 18.O-O-O Bb7 19.Qf4 black can just resign, as new mating threat practically forces him to give up his Queen.

Oct-21-24		Ziryab: This game is not Greco’s, but rather Polerio’s. Greco wrote about 14…Kf8 that Black has better defense and produced several variations. These can be found in “Professor Hoffman”, <Games of Greco> (1900) as variations to this game (pp. 118-121). The mate in two at the end of this game was presented by Polerio to the Duke of Sora. See Peter J. Monte, <The Classical Era of Modern Chess> (2014), pp. 162, 170.

Oct-23-24		Ziryab: This game is number 13 in J. A. Leon, <Forty-Six Games of Chess by Giulio Cesare Polerio> (1894). Published in <British Chess Magazine> and then as a book in the same year. Greco made a copy from one of Polerio’s manuscripts in his 1619 Primo manuscript.

Oct-23-24		Ziryab: Greco is the first person known to have discovered 14…Ke7.

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