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The Art of the Game of Chess is the first English translation of
Fr. Ruy López’s 1561 book about chess, Libro de la invención
liberal y arte del juego del ajedrez. López was a priest who
served as King Philip II’s confessor and royal advisor. As a
connoisseur of chess, King Philip II promoted the game in his
court, and it did not take long for López to become known as
Spain’s and one of Europe’s greatest chess players. López is
widely acclaimed as one of the most influential chess thinkers of
all time whose theories of chess are an integral part of how chess
is played today. Academics, including historians, linguists,
sociologists, and Hispanists, as well as non-academics, especially
chess enthusiasts, will appreciate this translation, which opens
with a Foreword by Andrew Soltis, who is a Grandmaster and a United
States Chess Hall of Fame Inductee, and includes a critical
introduction and more than 275 footnotes.
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