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Western chess pieces don't fall over like dominoes either, since they're usually kind of rounded...
by naniwaduni 4y ago
Western chess pieces don't fall over like dominoes either, since they're usually kind of rounded...
- hatenberg 4y agoWestern Chess, they got cowboy hats? Asking for a Persian friend...
- naniwaduni 4y agoWell, they do have horses!
- dmurray 4y agoI'm talking about the game codified in Europe in the late middle ages, and known as "chess" throughout the English-speaking world today. It doesn't make sense to attribute its origins to Persia in the context of specifically distinguishing it from other shatranj/chaturanga derivatives, like shogi.