Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government’s morality law, a sports official said on Sunday.
Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government’s morality law, a sports official said on Sunday.
Interesting, I wasn’t aware of that connection of chess and early islam, though I was somewhat aware that during the 17-19th centuries, in Europe and USA at least, dice games were seen as “street gambling”, but card games were not.
Given it’s the Taliban, my bet (heh) is on them sending the wives and daughters of players to jail “as a warning”