Carlo Cozio
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| Carlo Cozio | |
| Born | c 1715 Casale Monferrato, Italy |
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| Died | c1780 |
| Occupation | chess player |
| Spouse | donna Taddea dei marchesi di Barbiano di Chieri |
| Children | Ignazio Alessandro |
Carlo Cozio, Count of Montiglio and Salabue (c1715 – c1780) was an Italian chess player and theorist. He is best remembered for the book Il giuoco degli scacchi, and for the Cozio Defence.
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[edit] Life
Carlo Cozio was born in Casale Monferrato around 1715. He married donna Taddea dei marchesi di Barbiano di Chieri and by her had one son: Ignazio Alessandro (1755–1840) who became a famous collector of violins.[1]
In 1740 he completed the manuscript of Il giuoco degli scacchi o sia Nuova idea di attacchi, difese e partiti del Giuoco degli Scacchi, which was published in 1766 in Turin by the Stamperia Reale as two volumes amounting together to 700 pages.
Carlo Cozio died around 1780.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Beare, Charles & Chiesa, Carlo, “Cozio di Salabue, Count Ignazio Alessandro”, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
[edit] References
- Franco Pezzi and Mauro Marchisotti. Cenni biografici su Carlo Cozio, conte di Salabue (Italian).
[edit] Further reading
- Dr. Mauro Marchisotti. La Difesa Cozio (Italian).
- Dr. Mauro Marchisotti. La Difesa Cozio: Un Aggiornamento (Italian).
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