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Domenico Ercole del Rio (c. 1718 – c. 1802) was an Italian lawyer and author. He published a 110-page
"The anonymous Modenese"
''chess.com'' 1718 births 1802 deaths Chess composers Italian chess writers Italian chess players Place of birth missing {{italy-chess-bio-stub
Domenico Ercole del Rio (c. 1718 – c. 1802) was an Italian lawyer and author. He published a 110-page chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
book in 1750 which was the basis of a work by Giambattista Lolli
Giambattista Lolli (1698 – 4 June 1769) was an Italian chess player and one of the most important chess theoreticians of his time. He is most famous for his book ''Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sopra il giuoco degli scacchi'' ( en, Theoretical ...
thirteen years later. He composed many chess problem
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by the composer using chess pieces on a chess board, which presents the solver with a particular task. For instance, a position may be given with the instruction that White is to ...
s. He was one of the Modenese Masters. He was known as "the Devil who could never be beaten".
See also
*Wrong bishop
In a chess endgame, a wrong bishop is a bishop that would have been better placed on the opposite square color; in other words, a bishop is unable to guard squares of the other color. This most commonly occurs with a bishop and one of its , but it ...
References
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"The anonymous Modenese"
''chess.com'' 1718 births 1802 deaths Chess composers Italian chess writers Italian chess players Place of birth missing {{italy-chess-bio-stub