The Oldest Chess Game Ever Recorded "Scachs d'Amor" | Castellví vs Vinyoles | Valencia 1475
Channel: Mordimer's Chess Channel
Date: 2020-02-10

I record this video to celebrate 100 Subscribers achievement! Thank you all who support me so far in my youtube journey. The oldest chess game ever recorded was played in Valencia, 1475 AD. The opening played was Scandinavian Defense. It was discovered in 1905 in some manuscript found in archives. And its name was Scachs d'Amor, which means in Catalan language "The Chess Game of Love". Some sources gives it a name "Sachs d'Amor", but it's not correct one. Anyway, as it's maybe the most important chess game in history the future best chess channel has no choice but create the chess video as part of famous chess games analyzed. It was played between Don Francí de Castellví and Narcis Vinyoles and the arbiter's name was Mossen Fenollar. What do we know about the players? 

De Castellvi appears as one of the three authors of the "Scachs d´amor" poem. He was the owner of several towns and advisor in the Aragonese court of King Ferdinand. He was definitely a member of a distinguished Valencian family. 

Narcis Vinyoles was a polititian and a writer, he was know of his literacy production at that time. And he was a member of well known lawyers family.

Bernat Fenollar, commentator or arbiter was also member of notable Valencian family. He was a priest, a mathematician, but also a literacy patron and organizer of cultural event. So he was the real soul of the chess group and probably the first author of chess book which disappear later from the history. Manusript of chess oldest game in the World is everything we have now.

And maybe the level of the players were not so high at that time but it seems like these trio invented the modern rules of chess. That's why I decided it should appear among our chess games with commentary. As you know Mordimer Chess aspires to become the best youtube chess channel and as every journey starts from first step, our journey starts from first 100 subscribers. Feel free to subscribe and improve chess skills with us. Scachs d'Amor will not help you to learn chess strategy of how to play Scandinavian Defense nor how to play against Scandinavian Defense. It's only the interesting historical fact that every real fan of this wonderful kings chess game should know. Feel free to follow our chess games analyzed and learn chess from it. Thanks for watching and see you in the next one.

Don Francí de Castellví  - Narcis Vinyoles , Valencia 1475
Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotroc Variation [B01] 
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. h3 Bxf3
7. Qxf3 e6 8. Qxb7 Nbd7 9. Nb5 Rc8 10. Nxa7 Nb6 11. Nxc8 Nxc8
12. d4 Nd6 13. Bb5+ Nxb5 14. Qxb5+ Nd7 15. d5 exd5 16. Be3 Bd6
17. Rd1 Qf6 18. Rxd5 Qg6 19. Bf4 Bxf4 20. Qxd7+ Kf8 21. Qd8#
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Link to Study created of this game: 
https://lichess.org/study/OfOMhqjA/215ZQQbc#0

Link do Catalan version of Scachs d'Amor:
https://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Scachs_d%27amor

Link to English version of Scachs d'Amor:
http://www.scachsdamor.org/

Link to historical born of chess:
https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/modern-history/the-origin-of-modern-chess/valencia-spain-the-cradle-of-european-chess

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0:07 Introduction of Scachs d'Amor and players
7:34 The chess game begins here

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