Bernat Fenollar

Bernat Fenollar, also Mossèn Fenollar was a poet, cleric and chess player from Valencia, Spain. He was an abbot, had a position both in Valencia Cathedral and the University of Valencia 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 chess game between Francesc [de Castellví] and Narcís Vinyoles, 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 bishop.

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 , Murcia: 2015,