De ludo scacchorum

De ludo scacchorum

"De ludo scacchorum" ("On the Game of Chess") is a manuscript on the game of chess written around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a leading mathematician of the Renaissance. The manuscript presents over 100 chess problems. Long thought to have been lost, the manuscript was rediscovered in 2006, in the 22,000-volume library of Count Guglielmo Coronini. Based on Leonardo da Vinci's long association with the author and his having illustrated Pacioli's "De divina proportione", some scholars speculate that Leonardo either drew the chess problems that appear in the manuscript or designed the chess pieces used in the problems.

References

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3523718.ece Times Online: Renaissance chess master and the Da Vinci decode mystery]
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/14/europe/EU-GEN-Italy-Da-Vinci-Chess-Code.php International Herald Tribune: Experts link Leonardo da Vinci to chess puzzles in long-lost Renaissance treatise]
* [http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/story/4150848p-4739893c.html Winnipeg Free Press: Chess]
* [http://www.coronini.it/index.php?page=Discovery Coronini Cronberg Foundation: Discovery of Luca Pacioli manuscript]
* [http://www.abocamuseum.it Aboca Museum] : image of the manuscript with cover


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