Taliban suspends chess over gambling concerns
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Modern Times
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Re: Taliban suspends chess over gambling concerns
Fundamentally stupid.
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Pablo2000
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Re: Taliban suspends chess over gambling concerns
Did the chineese not do this hundreds of years ago over mahjong!
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urbanmusic
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Re: Taliban suspends chess over gambling concerns
Nothing new then? Chess , throughout history, has found itself banned or frowned upon often. Christianity ( including within the church), Buddhism, Confucianism, puritans, europe, england, early america, etc... They all done it at one time or another