Francesc Vicent (1450 in Segorbe – c. 1512) was a Valencian author who wrote the first treatise about chess using the present-day moves for the queen and the bishop.

Vicent may also be the true author of the treatise Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi signed by Pedro Damiano.

[1] The original Catalan work was still known to Alessandro Salvio in Naples in the early 17th century.

[2] It is believed that there was a copy in the library of Santa Maria de Montserrat, but this was destroyed by the occupying French forces in 1811 during the Peninsular War.

As his work spread throughout Europe, the innovation of the queen's change in movement making it the most powerful chess piece appeared for the first time in the poem Scachs d'amor (1475) written by Bernat Fenollar, Narcís Vinyoles and Franci de Castellví.