Valencia, the Home of Modern Chess, a Symposium of world importance

With prestigious international speakers from Germany, Russia,  Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain, Valencia was in the spotlight for this symposium that also featured a Karpov-Kasparov match. Few cultural events can be compared with the birth of queen chess or modern chess.

The contributions (**) of the speakers can be downloaded from the links given below. During the Symposium Valencia, Home of Modern Chess (September 2009) these experts expounded the Valencian origin of chess as we know it today.

• JOSE A. GARZÓN  
  Spain. Member of the Ken Whyld Association (KWA), chess historian.
  • Title: “Valencia the Home of Chess. The evidence”.
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• ALESSANDRO SANVITO
  Italy. Member of Chess Collectors International (CCI) and the KWA, chess historian.
  • Title: ”The Spanish chess tutor at the court of Lucrecia Borgia”.
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• GOVERT WESTERVELD
  The Netherlands. Hispanist and chess historian and researcher.
  • Title: “The magnificence of the new powerful Valencia queen”.
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• RAFAEL SOLAZ ALBERT 
  Spain. Bibliophile, documentalist, and writer.
  • Title: “Valencia in the 15th century”.
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• ANTONI FERRANDO
  Spain. Professor of Valencian Linguistics, Universidad de Valencia.
  • Title: "The amusing authors of Scachs d'amor: Bernat Fenollar, Narcís  Vinyoles, and Francesc de Castellví".
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(**) Studies are only included when permission was given by their authors; some have been summarised by the latter.