François-André Danican Philidor
The era's greatest chess player
French composer and the strongest chess player of the 18th century.
Dominated European chess so thoroughly he played and won blindfolded against several opponents at once. By day he wrote popular comic operas; his treatise called pawns 'the soul of the game' a century before the world caught up.
Famous for
- Unrivalled 18th-century chess
- 'Pawns are the soul of chess'
- Acclaimed opera composer
In Rubicon
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