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Codexes of Polerio


The work of Giulio Cesare Polerio consist exclusively in handwritten Codexes. Accordingly, there is always a single, original Codex of Giulio Cesare Polerio existant. Sanvito 2005 has organised these 8 original Codexes of Giulio Cesare Polerio both by location and by supposed age. Abbreviations 1 Sv - 8 Sv are used to refer to this organisation primarily done by supposed age. Among these 8 Codexes , one has a questionable existance/Polerio provenience (8 Sv). Another has a missing location (7 Sv = the so called "Doazan"). In doubt, reference is made to Salvio 2005 (4 Sv = Codex # 4 as organised by Sanvito 2005).

Polerio Codexes by age[edit]

1 Sv = "7.8.1584?" (Sanvito [Baffioni])
2 Sv = "1579/80" (Baffioni)
3 Sv = "later than 1579 but earlier than 1585" (Baffioni)
4 Sv = "1594, before June 30" (Sanvito [Murry])
5 Sv = "20.06.1594, Rome" (Sanvito [Baffioni])
6 Sv = "XVIth century for sure (Leon)
7 Sv = (undetermined?)
8 Sv = (questionable Polerio)


Polerio Codexes by location[edit]

1 Sv = Bibliothèque nationale de France "955"
2 Sv = Vatican Library "Boncompagni 3"
3 Sv = Vatican Library "Boncompagni 2"
4 Sv = Bibliothèques de Toulouse "Tolosa"
5 Sv = Bibliothèque nationale de France "948
6 Sv = Cleveland Public Library "Leon"
7 Sv = unknown "Doazan"
8 Sv ? Cleveland Public Library "L'elegantia"

Games of Polerio by move order[edit]

A Polerio[edit]

A02 Polerio[edit]

vdL 2 = 2 Sv

1.f4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.d4 d5 5.c4 c5 6.cxd5 cxd4 7.dxe6 dxe3 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Ng5 Ke8 10.Bxe3 h6 11.Nf7 Rg8 12.Bb5+ Nc6 [12...Ke7 13.Bc5+ Kxe6 14.Bc4+] 13.Ne5

A10 Polerio[edit]

vdL 1 = 2 Sv

1.c4 f5 2.Nc3 e5 3.e4 d6 4.d3 f4 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nf6 7.Bd2 Be7 8.Rc1 Nc6 9.Kb2 (rare case of "free castling" in Polerio's Codexes):

abcdefgh
8
a8 black rook
d8 black queen
e8 black king
h8 black rook
a7 black pawn
b7 black pawn
c7 black pawn
e7 black bishop
g7 black pawn
h7 black pawn
c6 black knight
d6 black pawn
f6 black knight
e5 black pawn
c4 white bishop
e4 white pawn
f4 black pawn
g4 black bishop
c3 white knight
d3 white pawn
f3 white knight
a2 white pawn
b2 white pawn
c2 white king
d2 white bishop
e2 white bishop
f2 white pawn
g2 white pawn
h2 white pawn
c1 white rook
d1 white queen
h1 white rook
8
77
66
55
44
33
22
11
abcdefgh
Position after 9.Ke1-b2

9. - 0-0 ("salta di Rè all'ordi[nari]o") 10.a3 Nd4+ (c.di.D.4.D.con. sca[cc]o/Queen's knight 4th of Queen with check) 11.Kb1 Nxe2 12.Qxe2

Sources[edit]

VAN DER LINDE, ANTONIUS: Das Schachspiel des XVI. Jahrhunderts. Nach unedirten Quellen bearbeitet, Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin 1874 LEON, J.A.: Forty-Six Games of Chess: by Giulio Cesare Polerio, from a hitherto unpublished Manuscript. 16 pp. "Reprinted from the 'British Chess Magazine, August,1894'.", 1894 BAFFIONI, PROF. GIOVANNI: Giulio Cesare Polerio Lancianese Maestro di Scacchi (XVI-XVII) Regione Abruzzo, Centro Servizi Culturali, Lanciano, 1993 SANVITO, ALESSANDRO: Il Boncompagni-Ludovisi era ritenuto disperso: Ritrovato un codice di Polerio, L’Italia Scacchistica: 311, 1994 BAFFIONI, PROF. GIOVANNI: Giulio Cesare Polerio, l’Apruzzese, Maestro di Scacchi Europeo (XVI-XVII), Litografia Botolini srl, Lanciano, 1995 SANVITO, ALESSANDRO: Bibliografia italiana degli scacchi, Degli origini al 1999, Edizione Sylvestre Bonnard sas, Mailand, 1999 SANVITO, ALESSANDRO: I codici scacchistici di Giulio Cesare Polerio e Gioacchino Greco, Messaggerie Scacchistiche, ISBN 88-901525-8-3, Brescia, 2005

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