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Italian jobs, French connections and Berlin walls: Chess’s European tour

Italian jobs, French connections and Berlin walls: Chess’s European tourWorldPing

Sicily, Madrid, France and Berlin have all left their mark on chess vocabulary. The Sicilian Defence dates back to Giulio Cesare Polerio, while Ruy López gave the Spanish Opening one of its first systematic analyses.

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