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Paolo Boi (1528-1598)

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    Paolo Boi, nicknamed the Siracusano, was born in Siracusa in 1528 and died in Naples in 1598. A rich family descends and in whom she cultivates his intelligence and vivacity. From very young she emphasizes in the game of the chess. Bat with Leonardo in Naples in an encounter that finishes in tables. Very it was wanted by Pope Pio V and many Italian princes, mainly by the Duke of Urbino that had it to its side during some years, with honoraria of three hundred annual shields. Champion of the world between 1587 and 1598 is considered.

    In 1575, Felipe II invites to him to a match in his cut and thus the best Italian chess players of their time met in Madrid: Giovanni Leonardo I gave Bona and Paolo Boi, along with the Ruy Spaniards Lopez and Alfonso Cerón, of Granada. This test is described by the historians like the first Match the International as Teachers and first in being documented. The match gained Leonardo gives Cutri it.

    After the match one went to Portugal where Don Sebastián faced the best players of the country before the king. After these confrontations it returned to rich Italy.

    In his youth it was to the service of Don Juan of Austria. He was an anxious man who traveled by average world. Era of glad, high and fast character in the game. In numerous occasions the life gained playing the chess and obtaining great sums of money. It is said that one faced a Turk in Hungary, after captured his return of Spain in the gulf of Leon. Also he gambled his freedom with the commander of the pirates. He delayed during a time his return to Genoa and was in Milan and Venice.

    He died to the 70 years of age in Naples of natural death, surely after contracting some disease after drinking contaminated water. It is not clear where he is buried, if in the church of San Luis of Naples or in the one of San Francisco de Paula in Naples, although its burial were worthy of a prince and napolitano horseman.