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And horses can move sideways, which is just nonsense. I have a TV so I know. Horses go forward or, at best, galavant at The Olympics dressage events. And castles don’t move. I agree with the Taliban on this one. Chess is misleading. It is haram.

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Not to mention the queen is the most powerful piece on the board, I mean WTF!? Obviously we can’t allow a woman to have that much power in a 100% male dominated society!

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Holy shit this might actually be the reason.

Insanity

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Exactly.
Whatever reason, insanity is almost definitely behind it.

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That’s not the reason.

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I think the piece is named differently over that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess)#Nomenclature

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Also it involves use of the mind, something the Taliban are resolutely opposed to.

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This has nothing to do with criticizing rules against gambling. Nobody is making a fuss about that.
Chess achieved popularity first in Persia and spread quickly to the Arab world in the 15th century. So chess started in the Muslim world, and Afghanistan was probably one of the first places it spread to, since Afghanistan was closely related to Persia. Making it pretty insane for the Afghan government to ban it after more than 500 years?!?!

They might as well ban coins, because they can be a source for gambling!

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Please do explain how playing chess is gambling.

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You can bet on who wins and loses, but wouldn’t just banning doing that, placing bets, make more sense than banning chess? wtf is there left to do for fun in that part of the world?

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Fun is haram because it takes you away from spiritual pursuits. I’m no expert on the theology of Afghan radicals, but having grown up amongst Christian fundamentalists, I presume the thinking is roughly equivalent.

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I guess all that’s left there is…

A N A R C H Y C H E S S

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Good. Gambling and gamblers lead to nothing but trouble.

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Cause this will certainly end all gambling.

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Yeah. Why have laws against murder or theft?

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That’s gonna be a long and frustrating road of bans before they nip it in the bud. I don’t know if there are other games popular over there, but gamblers are gonna gamble, they’ll make up a game especially for it if they have to!

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“Which hand is the bean in?”

All foodstuffs banned.

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