lundi 22 août 2011

Etymology

“Checkmate is a corruption of the Persian ‘shah maat,’ the ‘king is confounded,’ since chess came west from India via Iran.”

From “Top Ten Myths about the Libya War”: http://www.juancole.com/2011/08/top-ten-myths-about-the-libya-war.html




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