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Yes, Iran Is Playing Chess – But Only After Rewriting the Rules of the Game

Summary by Antiwar.com
The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire that refined it into a recognizable strategic system. It was Persia that codified its language, symbolism and intellectual framework: the shah (king), the rokh (rook), and shatranj, the…

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Antiwar.com broke the news in on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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