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Amid a global chess boom, a new generation of talent is filling up South Australian clubs and classrooms – some have the ...
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Experience the thrill of strategy and fun with the LEGO 40158 Pirates Chess Set, where pirates and Bluecoats clash in a vibrant beach-themed chessboard. This set brings the classic game of chess ...
HADID: Sir Raymond Keene is an international chess grandmaster and writer. He says during al-Shafi'i's time, elites of one of Islam's greatest empires - the Abbasids of Baghdad - were mad about chess.
A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?