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To: heterosupremacist

Isn’t shatranj basically Muslim chess?


2 posted on 01/03/2017 1:56:54 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

From Iran/Persia? I believe checkmate is from sha mat (king is dead).
This is idiocy.


9 posted on 01/03/2017 2:03:44 PM PST by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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