Please Help Explain

[JanC]

Ben Finney <bignose-hates-spam at and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> schreef:

> It's the subject of an ancient parable (of Arabic origin, I believe).

Indian -> Persian -> Arabic

And then it came to the barbaric Western world, together with the chess 
game itself...  ;-)

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