# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pedro-damiano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:26:19.317Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pedro-damiano"
name: "Pedro Damiano"
slug: "pedro-damiano"
description: "Pedro Damiano was a Portuguese chess player. A native of Odemira, he was a pharmacist by profession. He wrote Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti, published in Rome, Italy, in 1512; it went through eight editions in the sixteenth century. Damiano describes the rules of the game, offers advice on strategy, presents a selection of chess problems, and provides analyses of a few openings. It is the oldest book that definitely states that the square on the right of the row closest to each player must be white. He also offers advice regarding blindfold chess, principally focused on the need to master notation based on numbering the squares 1–64, a notation system which is common in the checkers family."
tagline: "Portuguese chess player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Questo_Libro_e_da_Imparare_Giocare_a_Scacchi_et_de_le_partite.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1480-01-01"
deathDate: "1544"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.76389733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump