![]() Rooks are desires to flare up one’s memory įor Knights, disdains of deserved return Taking Reason as King without preeminence ![]() He devised a game of chess, with new example: In their inscriptions you will see the sum of their literal sense, that is, the game of chess and the pacts to be obeyed. The stanzas are in chain form, with nine lines each and in sequential order, that is, four, three, and two, and thus must they be written and read. Mossèn Fenollar speaks the effects of Mercury: first, he scans the board he compares it to Time he counts the number of houses, they are sixty-four sixty-four stanzas answer to them he proffers the laws and pacts that must be followed by the players. Narcís Vinyoles carries the game of Venus, and takes the name of Glory his standard is green his King is honor his Queen, beauty his Rooks, reserve his Knights, disdains his Bishops, sweet glances his Pawns, courtesies. A poem called The Chess Game of Love, written by Don Francí de Castellví and Narcís Vinyoles and Mossèn Fenollar, under the names of three planets: Mars, Venus, and Mercury, by conjunction and influence of which the work was devised.ĭon Francí de Castellví carries the game of Mars and takes the name of Love his standard is red his King is reason, his Queen, will his Rooks, desires his Knights, praises his Bishops, 1 thoughts his Pawns, services.
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