Examples of using "Филидор" in a sentence and their english translations:
Philidor was considered the best chess player in the world in his time. The Philidor Defense, which is one of the open games, is named after him.
André Danican Philidor used to play three games at the same time, two blindly and one looking at the board. Diderot and D'Alembert cited it in the Encyclopedia as "one of the most phenomenal manifestations of the human mind".