Zarathustra wanted to teach the king a lesson through which he would stop being a megalomaniac so as to think that he can really offer someone anything he wishes for. He interpreted them like no other, like no chess player nowadays could and the king was very satisfied and his interest for life reborn.Īfter that he told Zarathustra to ask him everything he wanted and promised that his wish will be accomplished. He taught the king the rules and how to play it and, through it, he proved to the king all the rules of the universe and of life.

No one managed to, until Zarathustra appeared with the original game board, different from the chess board nowadays. Zarathustra prophet, religion coordinator in archaic Iran The King suffered of boredom and finally he offered an unlimited reward to the one who had made him recover his interest for life. The legend says that King Vishtaspa of Persia became extremely bored by life because he had accomplished everything he had wanted: he was full of triumph in wars, sick of hunting, tired of the intrigues and the pleasures at his court. The word ‘CHESS’ derives from the Persian ‘SHAH’ meaning King, the original word is supposed to be ‘ASHA’, the Cosmic Order. Sissa invented a game in which different pieces had to be moved on a square-checkered board formed of 64 squares and it is obvious that this was a forerunner of chess. More, he wanted it to develop the intellect and to have educational valences. It is said that rajah Balhait asked the wise Brahman Sissa to conceive a game in which the power of the mind should be prevailed and not that of fortune. Already present in the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs, known in the Nordic cultures, there are a lot of artistic representations about its presence in different civilizations. The history of this game is lost in the mist of time.

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