Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani

Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (9 November 1719 – 15 July 1796)[1][2] was an Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing.[3]

  1. ^ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 336, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
  2. ^ Murray, Sunnucks, and Hooper & Whyld give only the birth and death years; the full dates are from Gaige. Murray and Sunnucks give the year of death as 1792, but Gaige and Hooper & Whyld list 1796.
  3. ^ Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992), "Ponziani, Domenico Lorenzo", The Oxford Companion to Chess (2 ed.), Oxford University, p. 314, ISBN 0-19-280049-3