Ratings
| Year |
Rank |
Edo |
Dev. |
Games |
| 1840 |
41 |
1978 | (134) | 8 |
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |
| Name: Gatto Nero |
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| Notes: |
| This is a nickname, given to an English player who visited Rome in 1840 in the company of Marmaduke Wyvill and Frederick Knight. The Roman players called Wyvill the white cat ('il gatto bianco') and the third English player, whose name Dubois could not recall, the black cat ('il gatto nero'). I wonder if this might have been John Donaldson, who said (in the British Chess Magazine of 1891, p.451): 'From 1838 to 1841 I played very little chess, as I was travelling and studying art in Italy and Germany.' Furthermore, Dubois says in his reminiscences that il gatto nero boasted that he had played de la Bourdonnais in Paris, and John Donaldson talks about having played de la Bourdonnais in Paris in 1837. |
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| References |
| Periodicals |
| [ESIC], no. 3, 10 July 1864, page 9 |
| [RSI], vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1900, page 106 |
| [SZ], vol. 22, no. 15, 1 Nov. 1867, page 335 |
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