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Build For Tomorrow

Why Games Like Chess Are Threatening

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

For as long as chess has been around — and we’re talking 1,500-plus years — someone has tried to ban it. But why? The answer is complicated, but it begins here: For ages, global and moralistic leaders have viewed games as a threat worth quashing. Get in touch! Instagram: @heyfeifer Twitter: @heyfeifer Web: jasonfeifer.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.4

This is pessimists archive.

1:04.4

I'm Jason Pfeiffer.

1:05.9

Last year, in January of 2016,

1:08.4

Saudi Arabia's highest religious cleric made a statement that was widely

1:12.2

debated in Islamic circles, and I think it's fair to say, widely mocked by Western observers.

1:17.7

You can now add chess to the long list of things banned for being un-Islamic in Saudi Arabia.

1:22.8

In the latest fatwa issued by the kingdom's top cleric, it was declared that the popular

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