Re: OT Weird Chess News.

On Mon, 19 May 2025 17:50:24 +1200, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

Chess banned in Afghanistan due to gambling and religious considerations.
https://www.khaama.com/chess-banned-in-afghanistan-due-to-religious-restrictions/

That's very strange, as chess itself may well have come to Europe via
Islam (from India, IIRC). You would think it was firmly traditional.

I used to say that the Republican Party and the Taliban differed at
only one point: both talked about Traditional Family Values, but on
the Taliban enforced them. That, of course, is no longer the case:
Republican-controlled states are enforcing them.

Well, enforcing their version of those values. Whether they even know
what a family /is/, let alone what it's values are, is debatable.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"