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
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,
Source: WorldCat
