Bernat Fenollar, also Mossèn (Bernat de) Fenollar (

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, 1438 –

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, 28 February 1516) was a poet, cleric and chess player from Valencia,

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. He was an abbot (the title "Mossèn" was often given to clergymen), had a position both in

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and the

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as a professor of mathematics.

Works

Scachs d'amor

He is one of the authors of ''Scachs d'amor'' or ''Chess of Love'', a poem based on a

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between Francesc de Castellví and

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, while Bernat Fenollar comments and establishes the rules. It is the first documented game played with the modern rules of chess, at least concerning the moves of the queen and

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Selected works

* ''Història de la passió de N.S. Jesu Christi en cobles'', Valencia: 1493 * ''Lo procés de les olives'', Valencia: 1497 * ''Les trobes en lahors de la Verge Maria'', Valencia: 1974 , * ''The poem Scachs d'amor (1475)'', Murcia: 2015 , ''Source:

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References

External links

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