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Philidor (Filidor) or Danican Philidor was a family of musicians that served as court musicians to the French kings. The original name of the family was
Philidor
French composer and chess master (1726–1795)
François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), born François-André Danican and often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime
François-André Danican Philidor
François-André_Danican_Philidor
Chess opening
The Philidor Defence (or Philidor's Defence) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 The solid move 2...d6 defends Black's pawn
Philidor_Defence
Chess endgame drawing technique
The Philidor position (or Philidor's position) is a chess endgame involving a drawing technique for the defending side in the rook and pawn versus rook
Philidor_position
Type of checkmate in chess
pieces in a way that makes a smothered mate possible. Philidor's mate, also known as Philidor's legacy, is a checkmating pattern that ends in smothered
Smothered_mate
French court musician
(D'Anican) Philidor (c. 1620 – September 8, 1679) was a court musician at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIII, and a member of the prestigious Philidor family
Jean_Danican_Philidor
Topics referred to by the same term
André Danican Philidor may refer to: François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795), chess master and composer André Danican Philidor the elder (c. 1647–1730)
André_Danican_Philidor
Magician and showman
Phylidor (died 7 March 1829), also spelled "Phylidoor" or "Philidor", also known as "Paul Filidort" and probably the same as Paul de Philipsthal, was a
Paul_Philidor
Defunct Pennsylvania-licensed specialty online pharmacy
Philidor Rx Services is a Pennsylvania-licensed specialty online pharmacy, which mainly sold Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc drugs directly to
Philidor_Rx_Services
Competition to determine the World Chess Champion
French player François-André Danican Philidor was "supposed to be the best Chess-player in the world". Philidor wrote an extremely successful chess book
World_Chess_Championship
French chess player
List of Subscribers to Philidor's second edition it stands as in Twiss, but the spelling was, probably, in both cases Philidor's own. Along with other
Legall_de_Kermeur
Enchantress-goddess in Greek mythology
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Brussels 1743, Volume 1, pp. 321–24. Details are on the Philidor site and there is a performance on YouTube. Biographical notes on the Musicologie
Circe
Chess opening
which usually leads to the Hanstein Gambit after 5.d4 d6 6.0-0 h6 or the Philidor Gambit after 5.h4 h6 6.d4 d6 (other move orders are possible in both cases)
King's_Gambit
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
King's_Indian_Attack
French oboist and composer
André Danican Philidor the elder [French: l'aîné] (c. 1652, Versailles – 11 August 1730, Dreux), a member of the Philidorit family of French musicians
André Danican Philidor the Elder
André_Danican_Philidor_the_Elder
Topics referred to by the same term
The Philidor position is an endgame position in chess where one side with only a rook defends against an opponent with a rook and a pawn. Philidor position
Philidor position (disambiguation)
Philidor_position_(disambiguation)
Chess opening
analyzed; it was studied by Lucena and Ruy Lopez. Later it was played by Philidor, whose influence gave the opening long-lasting popularity. The opening
Bishop's_Opening
Soviet chess grandmaster (1929–1994)
moves. Antoshin is the eponym of two opening lines, one occurring in the Philidor Defence and the other in the Dutch Defence. In the Antoshin Variation,
Vladimir_Antoshin
Chess-playing automaton hoax (1770–1854)
until securing a match with Philidor at the Académie des Sciences. While Philidor won his match with the Turk, Philidor's son noted that his father called
Mechanical_Turk
Tragédie lyrique by François-André Danican Philidor
Persée (Perseus) is an opera by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera)
Persée_(Philidor)
French woodwind player and composer
Anne Danican Philidor (11 April 1681 – 8 October 1728) was a French woodwind player and composer of the Philidor family. Born in Paris on 11 April 1681
Anne_Danican_Philidor
1765 opéra comique by François-André Danican Philidor
comique, by the French composer and chess champion François-André Danican Philidor which first appeared at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris, on 27 February 1765
Tom_Jones_(Philidor)
Disadvantage in a game due to obligation to move
has the move, on which the game always depends." François-André Danican Philidor wrote in 1777 of the position illustrated that after White plays 36.Kc3
Zugzwang
Chess endgame theory
for the Lucena position, which is a win. The defender can aim for the Philidor position (which is a draw) or try to set up one of the other defensive
Rook and pawn versus rook endgame
Rook_and_pawn_versus_rook_endgame
Belgian stage magician (1763–1837)
Robert probably attended one of Paul Philidor's Phantasmagorie shows in Paris in 1792 or 1793. In 1790 in Vienna, Philidor had turned the fake séance ghost
Étienne-Gaspard_Robert
Wax museum in London
she accepted an invitation from lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer Paul Philidor to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum Theatre, London. A
Madame_Tussauds
Position in rook and pawn versus rook chess endgame
position (with the king of the stronger side in front of the pawn) or the Philidor position (with the defending king in front of the pawn) if played accurately
Lucena_position
Set of people sharing a common style of playing chess
play according to their personal style. In 1749, François-André Danican Philidor published Analyse du jeu des Échecs. This was the first book to discuss
School_of_chess
Book on chess
of Philidor and all frequented the Café de la Régence in Paris. Of these, the strongest players were Bernard, Carlier, Leger and Verdoni. Philidor, who
Traité_des_Amateurs
Chess opening
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Queen's_Gambit
Chess opening
d6, although 1.e4 d6 often transposes into other openings such as the Philidor Defence. Alternatives to 3...g6 for Black include 3...c6, the Czech Defence
Pirc_Defence
Chess endgame
defender sets up a second-rank defense, which is defeated by conversion to Philidor's position. Nunn recommends that the defender try to pass through all four
Queen_versus_rook_endgame
list of the complete operas of the French composer François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795). One of the early masters of the opéra comique, he wrote 27
List of operas by François-André Danican Philidor
List_of_operas_by_François-André_Danican_Philidor
Openings". "Philidor Defense: Lopez Countergambit - Chess Openings". "Philidor Defense: Philidor Countergambit - Chess Openings". "Philidor Defense: Exchange
List_of_chess_gambits
Chess with a randomized starting position
organized. Notable participants included Maarten van 't Kruijs (Philidor), J. Seligmann (Philidor), H. Kloos (La Bourdonnais), M.M. Coopman, and F.G. Hijmans
Chess960
Chess endgame of rook & bishop versus rook
algebraic notation to describe chess moves. In 1749 François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) published a position in which the superior side can force a
Rook and bishop versus rook endgame
Rook_and_bishop_versus_rook_endgame
Famous 1858 chess game played at an opera house in Paris
Opening: Philidor Defence (ECO C41) Paris, October/November 1858 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 This is Philidor's Defence, named after François-André Danican Philidor, the
Opera_Game
Chess game played in London in 1851
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Immortal_Game
Chess opening
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Fried_Liver_Attack
Opera company in Paris, France
company during this period included Egidio Duni, François-André Danican Philidor and Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. The dramatist Michel-Jean Sedaine wrote
Opéra-Comique
Topics referred to by the same term
Fielding whose title is often shortened to Tom Jones Tom Jones (Philidor), a 1765 opera by Philidor based on Fielding's novel Tom Jones (Edward German), a 1907
Tom_Jones
Opera genre
Tragédie en musique (French: [tʁaʒedi ɑ̃ myzik], musical tragedy), also known as tragédie lyrique (French: [tʁaʒedi liʁik], lyric tragedy), is a genre
Tragédie_en_musique
Chess piece
Rook 🨂 U+1FA02 Neutral Chess Rook Lucena position – winning position Philidor position – drawing position Rook and pawn versus rook endgame Tarrasch
Rook_(chess)
Open-source online chess platform
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Lichess
Play by William Shakespeare
Louis-August Papavoine (1761) Herne le chasseur, music by François-André Danican Philidor, libretto by Douin (1773) Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, libretto by
The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor
Syrian chess master (1705-1755)
handily by Philidor in a famous match in 1747, which marked the beginning of Philidor's rise to fame. Apart from the higher skills of Philidor, Ludwig Bledow
Philipp_Stamma
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Traxler_Counterattack
Rules of play for the game of chess
already captured, e.g. the rules published in 1749 by François-André Danican Philidor. In the 19th century, this restriction was lifted, which allowed for a
Rules_of_chess
Topics referred to by the same term
French word for Perseus French submarine Persée Persée (Lully) Persée (Philidor) Persée (web portal) Persée (M649), a French Tripartite-class minehunter
Persée
Configuration of pawns on a chessboard
(2...a6), King's Indian, King's English (with colors reversed), Pirc, Philidor, Ruy Lopez (Spanish), Italian. Character: Open, dynamic game. Themes for
Pawn_structure
the opposing king. It was analyzed by Philidor in 1777. See also Rook and pawn versus rook endgame. Philidor sacrifice The sacrifice of a minor piece
Glossary_of_chess
Musical genre
Dauphin's Funeral Home written for Maria Anna of Bavaria and attributed to Philidor the Elder around 1690. The eighteenth century was relatively scarce with
Funeral_march
Chess game played by Garry Kasparov
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Kasparov's_Immortal
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Berlin_Defence
Chess tournament in Toronto, Canada
(5) B22 Sicilian Defence Lei Tingjie (5) ½–½ Nurgyul Salimova (3½) C41 Philidor Defence Anna Muzychuk (3) ½–½ Aleksandra Goryachkina (5) C67 Ruy Lopez
Women's Candidates Tournament 2024
Women's_Candidates_Tournament_2024
Chess opening
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English_Opening
Final phase in the game of chess
There are several important drawing techniques, however, such as the Philidor position, the back-rank defense (rook on the first rank, for rook pawns
Chess_endgame
Danish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)
seek activity in the Philidor Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6). Indeed, he wrote a short monograph on the Philidor, Why Not The Philidor Defense?, in 1971. He
Bent_Larsen
Chess opening
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Sicilian Defence, Sveshnikov Variation
Sicilian_Defence,_Sveshnikov_Variation
French composer, pianist and music educator
Elyse (Elisabeth-Charlotte) Philidor (1776–1819) in 1799. She was the daughter of the composer François-André Danican Philidor and the niece of the singer
Louis-Barthélémy_Pradher
Inite Patriyotik 2,001 1.84 Georges Paul Yvon Renmen Ayiti 1,736 1.60 Philidor Jasmin Respect 1,042 0.96 Dieudonne Louicin Respect 914 0.84 None of the
2015–16 Haitian parliamentary election
2015–16_Haitian_parliamentary_election
French wax museum founder (1761–1850)
her collection of portraits. She had accepted an invitation from Paul Philidor, a magic lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer, to exhibit her work alongside
Marie_Tussaud
(1681–1732) Johann Mattheson (1681–1764) Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728) Pierre Danican Philidor (1681–1731) Giovanni Reali (c. 1681–after 1727) ([18])
List_of_Baroque_composers
American classical conductor
Ryan Brown at The Barns at Wolf Trap after conducting a performance of The Blacksmith by François-André Danican Philidor in September 2021
Ryan_Brown_(conductor)
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Barnes_Opening
German-Austrian chess master and theoretician (1763–1823)
can advance, as Philidor had taught in his treatise, against the enemy castling (e.g. e2–e4–e5, f2–f4, g2–g4, f4–f5 etc.). Unlike Philidor, however, he did
Johann_Baptist_Allgaier
Ballet premiered in 1653 in Paris, France
Veilles // Dansé // Par sa Majesté le 23e Fevrier 1653. // Recueilly // Par Philidor Laisnée En 1690" (BnF, département Musique, RES F-501) published online
Ballet_Royal_de_la_Nuit
English physician and editor (1754–1825)
games against the best chess player of the time, François-André Danican Philidor, who was so confident of his superiority that he played with several handicaps
Thomas_Bowdler
Canadian pharmaceutical company
addition, by controlling the pharmacy services offered by Philidor, Valeant allegedly steered Philidor's customers to expensive drugs sold by Valeant. One alleged
Bausch_Health
Chess positions with few pieces where none of them are a pawn
endgames goes back centuries by players such as François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (1719–1796). On the other hand
Pawnless_chess_endgame
1982 video game
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1K_ZX_Chess
Reference work on chess openings
French Defence Petrov's Defence Vienna Game Centre Game King's Gambit Philidor Defence Italian (Giuoco Piano, Evans Gambit, Hungarian Defence, and Two
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings
Encyclopaedia_of_Chess_Openings
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation
Sicilian_Defence,_Najdorf_Variation
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defense Philidor Defense Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Tennison_Gambit
Traditional board game for two players
France. The two most important French masters were François-André Danican Philidor, a musician by profession, who discovered the importance of pawns for chess
Chess
Chess opening
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Blackmar–Diemer_Gambit
Music used in connection with the ritual and social functions of Freemasonry
including music written by Georg Benda, Ignaz Pleyel, François-André Danican Philidor, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner and Christian
Masonic_music
First Internet-only daily chess newspaper
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Chess_Today
Chess patterns
mate is known as Philidor's mate or Philidor's legacy after François-André Danican Philidor, though its documentation predates Philidor by several hundred
Checkmate_pattern
Chess opening
Bb5+ c6 6.dxc6, followed by 6...bxc6 or 6...Qa5+. 3...d6 transposes to Philidor's Defence. 3.Bc4 is an occasionally seen alternative for White, often with
Petrov's_Defence
Trio of 18th-century Italian chess writers
1992). They recommended playing the Italian Game opening. In contrast to Philidor's idea of pawn structure and mobility, the Modenese school emphasized rapid
Modenese_Masters
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Blumenfeld_Gambit
Indexing methodologies for classical music
Portail Philidor. Archived from the original on 2008-11-07. Philidor (2005). "Catalogue des œuvres de Jean-Marie Leclair". Portail Philidor. Archived
Catalogues of classical compositions
Catalogues_of_classical_compositions
Flemish painter
Petrus Johannes van Regemorter, by Guillaume Philidor Van den Burggraaff
Petrus Johannes van Regemorter
Petrus_Johannes_van_Regemorter
Chess opening
Cozio (c. 1740). The great French player and theoretician André Danican Philidor opined of the Sicilian in 1777, "This way of opening the game ... is absolutely
Sicilian_Defence
French actor, singer, impresario & puppeteer (1732–1801)
Le Tonnelier, an opéra comique presented with success (music by Gossec, Philidor and Trial). Michel Faul, Les Tribulations de Nicolas-Médard Audinot, fondateur
Nicolas-Médard_Audinot
Chess variant
place in Florence in 1266. In 1783 the great French player André Danican Philidor demonstrated his ability to play up to three blindfold games simultaneously
Blindfold_chess
Live performance of music in front of an audience
homes of the nobility, for only the nobility. Organized by Anne Danican Philidor, the first public concerts in France, and arguably the world, were the
Concert
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Benko_Gambit
1962) Barrington Pheloung (1954–2019) Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728) François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) Philippe le Chancelier (c. 1160/1170–1236)
List_of_composers_by_name
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Bird's_Opening
Reading material about chess endgame
endgames over the centuries, including Ruy López de Segura, François-André Philidor, Josef Kling and Bernhard Horwitz, Johann Berger, Alexey Troitsky, Yuri
Chess_endgame_literature
Tragédie lyrique by François-André Danican Philidor
operatic tragédie lyrique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor. The libretto was by Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet, after Francesco
Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège
Ernelinde,_princesse_de_Norvège
Chess pattern of development
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Fianchetto
Ukrainian-French chess grandmaster (born 1950)
2005 (370 pp.), covering the Pirc, the Modern Defense, the Czech and the Philidor Carpathian Warrior 2, Pandora Press, 2008, covering lesser known lines
Vladimir_Okhotnik
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Durkin_Opening
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Réti_Opening
Chess opening
Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two
Slav_Defense
Opéra comique by François-André Danican Philidor
comique with spoken dialogue and music composed by François-André Danican Philidor as well as several vaudevilles (popular old songs with new words), which
Le_maréchal_ferrant
Fictional chess game from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Poole_versus_HAL_9000
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