Bernat Fenollar

Bernat Fenollar

Bernat Fenollar, also Mossèn (Bernat de) Fenollar (Valencian Community, 1438 – Valencia, 28 February 1516) was a poet, cleric and chess player from Valencia, Spain.[1] He is one of the authors of Scachs d'amor or Chess of Love, a poem based on a chess game between Franci de Castellvi and Narcís Vinyoles, while Bernat Fenollar comments and establishes the rules.[1][2] It is the first documented game played with the modern rules of chess.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Bernat Fenollar". www.enciclopedia.cat (in Catalan). Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  2. 1 2 Sobrer, Josep Miquel. "The English translation of Scachs d'Amor". www.scachsdamor.org. Scachs d'Amor Org. Retrieved 2015-08-07.

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