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	Giuoco Piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Giuoco Piano is a chess opening characterized by the moves
		The Giuoco Piano (Italian: "quiet game"), is the oldest recorded opening.
		The Giuoco Piano was popular through the 19th century, but modern refinements in defensive play have led most chess masters towards openings like the Ruy Lopez that offer White greater chances for long term initiative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giuoco_Piano (603 words)

	How do you pronounce...?
		The Giuoco Piano opening is named after the Italian Chess player called Gioachino Greco who lived in the seventeenth century.
		Now, since the word "Giuoco" is a foreign word, any person (other than an Italian) may pronounce it different if he or she has never heard of it.
		According to School Teacher Angie Badillo of Texas, it is OK to speak it like "Gee-U-co Piano" which she believes it could be the most close or accurate English translation.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/mail/mail_2001/how_do_you_pronounce.htm (201 words)

	Loiodice's Chess Collection - The Most Important Chess Opening
		3 Bc4 - The Giuoco (Giuoco is pronounced JOKE-oh) Piano / 2 Knights Defense
		The most important chess opening to learn, especially for young players, is the Italian Game, comprising mainly the Giuoco Piano and the Two Knights Defense.
		This is the position after 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 c3, the Moeller Variation of the Giuoco Piano.
	loiodice.com /chess/cc-openings/giuoco2knights.sht (693 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - The Giuoco Piano
		The plethora of attacking and counter-attacking possibilities proves attractive to many chess players who use the Giuoco Piano, since in it demands are regularly and concretely made on the player's ability to create combinations.
		For the two or three readers who haven't yet encountered the Giuoco Piano, the opening moves are 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4; this last move puts pressure on the weakest square in Black's camp (f7), the only square which is defended by just the King.
		While the Giuoco may seem awfully "Reinfeld-esque" to players of my generation (who came up during the Fischer era), there's actually a lot of good reasons for playing it, at least occasionally.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1657 (1369 words)

	Giuoco Piano C50-C54 Chess Opening Software
		If you do not feel up to the heavy positional demands made on you by the Ruy Lopez, you more or less have to turn to 3.Bc4 and after the strongest reply, 3Bc5, you are into the Giuoco Piano.
		This opening set-up is reckoned to be one of the oldest known in the history of chess and the author is right to comment: “This opening, more than any other, reflects the very development of the game of chess.
		This means that the Giuoco Piano is the best suited for those making a start in opening theory.” The author put great emphasis on his training database, so that the learner can check the knowledge he has gained in an interactive fashion, struggling against the clock
	www.chesscentral.com /software/giuoco-piano.htm (187 words)

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		The term "Italian Game" is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the Giuoco Piano.
		The openings arising from the Italian Game are among the oldest recorded openings and the sequence of moves is known as the Épine Dorsale.
		The Giuoco Piano (Italian: "quiet game") was played by the Portuguese Damiano at the beginning of the 15th century, and the Italian Greco at the beginning of the 16th century.
	pushedpawn.org /test6/Italian_Game.htm (178 words)

	have the giuoco's fangs been pulled ?
		The GIUOCO PIANO (also known as the Italian Game) is a very old opening (played in early 1500!) that has long been employed by players who enjoy open, attacking positions.
		However, a new idea has recently surfaced that suggests the whole system (with the exception of the gambit offshoots) gives Black easy and safe equality.
		So, is the Giuoco Piano dead as a winning try, or does a reader have a way to bring it back to life?
	www.jeremysilman.com /chess_opng_anlys/072002_giuoco_fangs_been.html (385 words)

	Exeter Chess Club: Openings\Ital_ToC.html
		The trouble with the Giuoco Piano (is the Giuoco Pianissimo)
		The raid with central pawns: Boleslavsky - Scitov [C54 Giuoco Piano] (Moscow) 1933
		Trap in the Main Line of the Giuoco Piano with 6.
	www.exeterchessclub.org.uk /Openings/Ital_ToC.html (329 words)

	Giuoco Piano C50 - C54 - CD/DVD-box, 2004.: 24,99 Euro - openings - Schach Niggemann
		If you do not feel up to the heavy positional demands made on you by the Ruy Lopez, you more or less have to turn to 3.Bc4 and after the strongest reply, 3...Bc5, you are in the Giuoco Piano.
		This means that the Giuoco Piano is the best suited for those making a start in opening theory."
		Just as he does in his latest work on the Giuoco Piano, he made great use in them of his many years of experience as a chess trainer.
	www.niggemann.com /Buecher/7369.html (398 words)

	Chess openings: Giuoco Piano (C50) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thanks for the advice, is the center attack in the lopez 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d4 ?
		: Giuoco Piano is such a basic opening, (that's why I play it so much) and you know someone can't play chess when you use this against them and they don't defend themselves properly.
		Giuoco pianissimo is the only opening to secure the central majority for white =>> white stands infinidesimally better.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessopening?eco=C50 (722 words)

	Chessville Reviews - Italian Game and Evans Gambit - by Jan Pinski - Reviewed by Rick Kennedy
		The former updated an opening that had seen a bit of a revival in the 1980s; the latter gave the latest on a defense that continues to see a lot of action as an answer to 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4.
		Still, for better or for worse, the Giuoco Piano has remained popular at the club level and is seen occasionally at the tables of the higher-ups.
		In fact, the Giuoco Piano makes up only 1/3 of Pinski’s new book – the rest being largely dedicated to the Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4), with about 20 pages given over to the Hungarian Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7) and other sidelines.
	www.chessville.com /reviews/ItalianGameandEvansGambit.htm (2085 words)

	Italian Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black will usually respond with 3...Bc5, the Giuoco Piano; 3...Nf6, the Two Knights Defense; or 3...Be7, the Hungarian Defence.
		The Giuoco Piano (Italian: "quiet game") was played by the Portuguese Pedro Damiano at the beginning of the 15th century, and the Italian Greco at the beginning of the 16th century.
		The Italian Game received its name because of Greco's work, while Damiano has the misfortune to have his name attached to the Damiano Defence, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6?, a line he rightly condemned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_Game (226 words)

	Chess Archaeology
		At the best there is little of an adventurous character about a Giuoco Piano opening, and usually the issue is a draw.
		Gunsberg’s fifth move, already alluded to, may be said to have been a little more advantageous to him than his move in the former game as this point.
		After the opening moves, varied from the fourth game by Gunsberg playing 5 P-Q B 3, Black did not castle, and gave White an opportunity to develop his forces with considerable vigor and rush into a seemingly promising attack by 16 Q-R 4, which subsequently compelled Black to move his king.
	www.chessarch.com /excavations/000C_guns_stei/ca0037.shtml (1801 words)

	Amazon.com: Man From Uncle 17: Quadripartite & Giocco: Video: Robert Vaughn,David McCallum,Leo G. Carroll,Barbara ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Volume 17 has episodes "The Quadripartite Affair" and "The Giuoco Piano Affair", both which appeared on Man from UNCLE's first season and are one of the first episodes.
		And since this affair was supposed to be a two-parter with "The Giuoco Piano Affair" but was made into two separate episodes, she will return in her role as Marion Raven along with the same villains Ravel and Bufferton.
		The title of this episode comes from the chess move called the Giuoco Piano where the players force the Queen to make her move (but of coures the White Knight, Illya, comes to the rescue!!!).Jill Ireland does a much better job in this episode, acts her parts just right and says her lines to perfection.
	www.amazon.com /Man-Uncle-17-Quadripartite-Giocco/dp/6302509912 (1778 words)

	JBQ72206EC - Gambits (Six Chess Pieces for Horn and Piano)
		Motifs from the game of chess unite the music and titles of the work's six movements: White vs. Black Giuoco Piano Muy Ruy French Defense Sicilian Defense Copa Capablanca.
		Browse All Piano Music Composed By Robert Xavier Rodríguez.
		Piano • Flute • Oboe • Bassoon • Clarinet • Saxophone • Trumpet • French Horn • Trombone • Percussion
	www.encoremusic.com /JBQ72206.html (291 words)

	Chessville - Reviews - The Bishop's Opening Explained - by Gary Lane - Reviewed by Rick Kennedy
		Bend it that way, you have the Giuoco Piano.
		Some masters found it a useful way to avoid the Petroff Defense, which was annoyingly drawish at the time, or to play a quiet Giuoco Piano or Two Knights.
		They didn’t seem to mind the fact that they often entered an equal middlegame – as long as they knew the positions and strategic ideas better than their opponents and were confident about outplaying them, they had their “+/=”.
	www.chessville.com /reviews/BishopsOpeningExplained.htm (1733 words)

	shoot this, piano player!! \| MetaFilter
		February 8, 2005 9:42 PM Last night, I watched François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player.
		While looking for information on the movie today, I came across this website which features famous uses of the Giuoco Piano opening in chess.
		Yes, it is the only chess move I know, aside from losing....
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/39419 (333 words)

	SCHOOL LESSONS VOLUME 2
		Let's have a look at an opening where this plan can work really well.
		If you play the piano you'll know that PIANO means QUIET in Italian.
		GIUOCO means GAME: it's the same word as JOKE.
	www.chesskids.com /grownups/slv2ch11.htm (795 words)

	Giuoco Piano
		The Giuoco Piano is named after an Italian chess player called Gioachino Greco who lived in the 17th century.
		Below is a game where White comes off better.
		The following is a Giuoco Piano game played by the American Paul Morphy.
	www.chesscorner.com /tutorial/openings/giuoco_piano/giuoco_piano.htm (227 words)

	Chess Openings - Chess opening moves for the Beginner - Giuoco Piano
		With 4.d3, White plays the Giuoco Pianissimo (Italian: "quietest game").
		With the Evans Gambit, 4.b4, White offers a pawn to speed his development.
		With the Italian Gambit, 4.d4, White opens up the center avoiding the quiet lines of the Giuoco Piano and Giuoco Pianissimo.
	www.chess-openings.info /Giuoco-Piano.html (669 words)

	Roman's Lab: Mastering Chess Series on DVD - Volume 22: The Easy Way to Play the Scotch and Giuoco Piano Openings
		Roman's Lab Volume 22: The Easy Way to Play the Scotch and Giuoco Piano Openings
		Scotch Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4) and Giuoco Piano (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5).
		The Scotch and Giuoco openings give White an aggressive tactical repertoire.
	www.chesscentral.com /dvd-chess/22-mastering-chess.htm (259 words)

	En Passant: My third album
		The instrumentals all have chess names – “Light on the Right” referring to board orientation, “Giuoco Piano,” “Hypermodern,” and “Queen’s Gambit (Declined)” all being openings, and “Zugzwang” being a term used in the middle of the game.
		Going with the traditional “move yourself” type of trance techno, but it’s focused around the electric guitar and piano parts.
		The Matrix soundtrack, with its small piano line and so on.
	www.angelfire.com /music5/edr/ENPASSANT.htm (1659 words)

	Grant--Sicherman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Why on earth are we playing the Giuoco Piano in the deciding game of the tournament?
		Grant played the Piano because he wouldn't venture a Ruy Lopez against his instructor!
		I played this as if I was in a hurry to defend my queenside: a little giuoke.
	www.monmouth.com /~colonel/chess/grant.html (214 words)

	The Fellowship of the Blue Mountains (An alliance of the races) - The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of ...
		I bring tidings from the halls of my kin.
		I am Giuoco Piano expert treasure hunter of the shire and an officer in the House of Diplomacy.
		Feel free to call on us for any need.
	lotro.turbine.com /forums/showthread.php?p=255136#post255136 (289 words)

	Giuoco Piano Sacrifice
		I recently read your excellent article on the Giuoco Piano from 2002.
		You probably know that Tim Harding has also published a series of articles on this opening in his “The Kibitzer” column on chesscafe.com.
		Readers are welcome to put me in my place and show me that I’m completely off the mark!
	www.jeremysilman.com /chess_opng_anlys/040201_Guioco_Piece_Sac.html (611 words)

	Roman Forum Video series page with cart
		Scotch Gambit - Giuoco Piano: Win Either Way
		Two Knights Defense from White's perspective, concentrating on his new ideas in the system
		GM Dzindzichashvili completes his opening repertoire recommendations for players of the White pieces by examining some old but potent variations of the
	www.chess4less.com /2-romanForum.htm (575 words)

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