From your link, there is advice for today's computer game addicts: The philosopher and theologian Al-Ghazali mentions chess in The Alchemy of Happiness (c. 110

From your link, there is advice for today's computer game addicts: The philosopher and theologian Al-Ghazali mentions chess in The Alchemy of Happiness (c. 1100). He uses it as a specific example of a habit that may cloud a person's good disposition:[34] Indeed, a person who has become habituated to gaming with pigeons, playing chess, or gambling, so that it becomes second-nature to him, will give all the comforts of the world and all that he has for those (pursuits) and cannot keep away from them.