The Llibre dels jochs partitis del schachs en nombre de 100 was printed May 15th 1495 in Valencia (Spain). This piece was written by Francesch Vicent and printed by Lope de la Roca Alemany and by the bookseller Pere Trincher. It's a crucial work in chess history, since it was the world's first printed treaty and it announced the new rules of modern chess, then known as the queen's chess, which had only existed for 20 years, since its birth in the poem Scachs d'amor (Valencia, 1475). The contents of the book have been rescued thanks to investigations mainly developed during the last 20 years, being recognized and accepted by the main contemporary experts that the later books of Lucena (1497) and Damiano(Rome, 1512) are translations to Spanish and Italian of Vicent's work. His 100 problems have been preserved handwritten in an Italian codex of the first years of the XVIth century, keeping the original Valencian writing.
Knowing the contents of the book, it only remains to find it , it being one of Spain's biggest cultural treasures.
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